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#1

“But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.”
― Irving Stone, Lust for Life

tags: art, artists, death, life, selfish

5 likes

#2

“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

94 likes

#3

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo

2151 likes

#4

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

6840 likes

#5

“To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.”
― Jason Silva

31 likes

#6

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: inspirational, psychology

201 likes

#7

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

4784 likes

#8

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

4203 likes

#9

“All religions are true but none are literal.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: morality, religion

408 likes

#10

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

232 likes

#11

“Art is anything you can get away with.”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

tags: art, humor

91 likes

#12

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

9952 likes

#13

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

tags: apathy, mediocrity

661 likes

#14

“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

tags: artists, living, writers

139 likes

#15

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

7845 likes

#16

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

tags: humor

22516 likes

#17

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

6536 likes

#18

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: love

4928 likes

#19

“Life happens when the tectonic power of your speechless soul breaks through the dead habits of the mind.”
― John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, a Parable

3 likes

#20

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

1988 likes

#21

“The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.”
― Jose Saramago

39 likes

#22

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy

1601 likes

#23

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9008 likes

#24

“I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that is to say, the imperative to live on one bit of ground marked red or blue on the map and to hate the other bits in green or black, has always seemed to me narrow-minded, blinkered and profoundly stupid. I am a soul brother to everything that lives, to the giraffe and to the crocodile as much as to man.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: patriotism

36 likes

#25

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16206 likes

#26

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10936 likes

#27

“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: responsibility

448 likes

#28

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

7644 likes

#29

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

2307 likes

#30

“Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.”
― Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief

tags: philosophy

3 likes

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