Rodney > Rodney's Quotes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“The man 'Jericho' wondered if the thing would get to the smoke it wanted. If it was as hungry as he was. Wondered if the monster would be willing to share.”
― Rosca Marx, The Laughing Maggot

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It’s sad. We use words like “awesome” and “wonderful” like they’re candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word “amazing” to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy’s. What’s going to happen on your wedding day, or when your first child is born? How will you describe it? You already wasted “amazing” on a fucking sandwich.”
― Louis C.K.

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous asshole and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.”
― William T. Vollmann, Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
― Thomas Otway

“Of all the species on this planet, of which there are many (hundreds of thousands counting insects and microorganisms alone), Homo Sapiens - the so-called "wise ape" - is the only one that bothers to cover its ass. It is also the only species that purposefully poisons its environment and murders its own kind en masse. Meditate on that one for moment.”
― Arthur Graham

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

“Even those who consider all this total bullshit have to concede that it's upscale, artisanal bullshit of the highest order.”
― Mark Leyner

“It's good to be clever but cleverness should be muted and buried in the sand. Nobody should be able to detect it but me.”
― D. Harlan Wilson, Hitler: The Terminal Biography

“to live a
substance-free
life under the
pressures of
the daily grind
is state-sponsored
suicide”
― Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet

“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.”
― Arthur Graham, Editorial

“Perhaps, he would disappear into the folds of the Void, become a speck of the universe, an element. And that, he had come to think, would not be such a bad thing.”
― Jamie Grefe, Static/Orgone

“It is really most absurd to wish to turn this scene of misery into a pleasure spot and set ourselves the goal of achieving pleasures and joys instead of freedom from pain, as so many do. Those who, with too gloomy a gaze, regard this world as a kind of hell and, accordingly, are only concerned with procuring a fireproof room in it, are much less mistaken. The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena