Shelby > Shelby's Quotes

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Sifting through an urn of cremated remains you cannot tell if a person had successes, failures, grandchildren, felonies. “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory