Ben > Ben's Quotes

“I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.”
― Morrissey

“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”
― Morrissey

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider