Quote Collection #1

"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forward." -Soren Kierkegaard

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -Mark Twain

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." -Mae West

"You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try." -Homer Simpson

"Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and total absence of it means collapse." -William James

"Faith means not wanting to know what's true." -Nietzsche

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto." -Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King

"People's lives--their real lives, as opposed to their simple physical existences--begin at different times." -The Dark Half, Stephen King

"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess." -Samuel Johnson

"Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do." -George Moore

"'Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to people." -Mark Twain

"Advice is what people ask for when we already know the answers but wish we didn't."

"We're all bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it." Andrew, The Breakfast Club

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed."

"Everybody believes every easily whatever they fear or desire." -Jean de la Fontaine

"Losers quit when they are tired; winners quit when they have won."

"The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle." -From the foreword of Night Shift by Stephen King

"To want is not to love, Lasher. To use is not to love." -The Witching Hour, Anne Rice

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -Franklin P. Jones.

"You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt."

"Sometimes the way that you act makes me wonder what I am to you and sometimes I can't stand the way that I'm acting to be part of the things you do." -Billie Rae Martin

"If still loving you means I'm weak, then I'm weak." -Patsy Cline

"Charlie Brown: I think I'm afraid to be happy. Lucy: How can you be afraid to be happy? Charlie Brown: Because whenever you get too happy, something bad always happens."

"Conscience: The inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking." -H. L. Mencken

"Admiration: our polite recognition of one's resemblance to ourselves." -Ambrose Bierce

"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." -Jean de la Bruyere

"Life is only one damn thing after another." -Elbert Hubbard

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." -Oscar Wilde

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