Cori > Cori's Quotes

“No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.”
― Tucker Max, Assholes Finish First

“Don't concern yourself with the opinions of those who judge you. That is placing on them an importance they do not have.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“It is the property of fools to be always judging.”
― Thomas Fuller

“...guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven.”
― Miguel Syjuco

“All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about.”
― Tiffany King

“It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.”
― Philip Larkin, High Windows

“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
― Philip Larkin

“What will survive of us is love.

- from A Writer”
― Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”
― Philip Larkin

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”
― Philip Larkin

“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.”
― Philip Larkin