Jessica's favorite quotes

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life"
— Pablo Neruda

97 people liked it

"If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it."
— Albert Camus

18 people liked it

"I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so? "
— Albert Camus (The Stranger)

4 people liked it

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

tags: learning

968 people liked it

"Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us"
— Pablo Neruda

35 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life

1,517 people liked it

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski

450 people liked it

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

1,002 people liked it

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
— Pablo Neruda (Love: Ten Poems By Pablo Neruda)

tags: love

203 people liked it

"The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding."
— Albert Camus

12 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions

1,037 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

959 people liked it

"I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
— Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition)

tags: love

123 people liked it

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor

1,019 people liked it

"I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."
— Pablo Neruda

92 people liked it

"But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me."
— Pablo Neruda

81 people liked it

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

tags: living, world

1,037 people liked it

"I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

tags: betrayel, loyalty, relationships

15 people liked it

"You are like nobody since I love you"
— Pablo Neruda

36 people liked it

"Each hour, Each day"
— Pablo Neruda (The Captain's Verses)

5 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life

740 people liked it

"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."
— Albert Camus (The Plague)

tags: emotion

9 people liked it

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: loss

610 people liked it

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: reality

533 people liked it

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

453 people liked it

"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: death, durden, scars, tyler

260 people liked it

"A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: death, living

124 people liked it

"Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby)

tags: big-brother

82 people liked it

"Do you hate people?

I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
— Charles Bukowski (The Movie: Barfly)

332 people liked it

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
— Charles Bukowski (Women: A Novel)

tags: alcohol

140 people liked it

"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

112 people liked it

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. "
— Charles Bukowski

96 people liked it

"there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late"
— Charles Bukowski

88 people liked it

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
— Charles Bukowski

83 people liked it

"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
— Charles Bukowski

78 people liked it

"those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that."
— Charles Bukowski

56 people liked it

"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
— Charles Bukowski

tags: 4, new, poems

48 people liked it

"the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.

"The Wine of Forever""
— Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

tags: writing

45 people liked it

"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
— Charles Bukowski (Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

tags: loneliness

48 people liked it

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."
— Charles Bukowski

45 people liked it

"The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."
— Charles Bukowski

30 people liked it

"We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting"
— Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

28 people liked it

"each man's hell is in a different
place: mine is just up and
behind
my ruined
face."
— Charles Bukowski

30 people liked it

""I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.""
— Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

25 people liked it

"dogs and angels are not
very far apart"
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

25 people liked it

"to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs."
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

20 people liked it

"I sit here
drunk now.
I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here
without committing murder
or being
murdered;
without
having ended up in the
madhouse.

as I drink alone
again tonight
my soul despite all the past
agony
thanks all the gods
who were not
there
for me
then."
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

18 people liked it

"For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter."
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

19 people liked it

"Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so."
— Charles Bukowski (What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire)

14 people liked it

"I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me."
— Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

11 people liked it

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