Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!

~ Charles M. Schulz

Life is just too much for me. I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared...What did you want... A chance to warm up first?

~ Charles M. Schulz

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

~ Charles M. Schulz

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

~ Charles M. Schulz

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

~ Charles M. Schulz

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is a warm puppy.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

~ Charles M. Schulz

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

~ Charles M. Schulz

Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black way of looking at life, although I think many of us find the church a refuge for a lot of our personality faults. Those of us, for example, who never learned to dance feel that the church is an ideal place for us if we can find a church that doesn't believe in dancing. Then we can get away with never having learned how to dance. You can carry this in all sorts of directions and see that the church is a refuge for what is really a 'flaw' in your own makeup.

~ Charles M. Schulz

There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now how in the world anybody comes up with that is beyond me, and how you can be so sure of that is also beyond me. I always like to go back to Snoopy's theological writings, which he called, Has It Ever Occurred to You That You Might Be Wrong. And that's the way I feel. These things fascinate me, and I like to talk about them with other people, and hear what they think. But I'm always a little bit leery of people who are sure that they're right about things that nobody's ever been able to prove, and never will be able to prove.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or what? It just causes all sorts of problems. And what are the kids praying about anyway? Does it really matter, does praying in school...what are you doing it for? The whole thing just opens up all sorts of elements of discussion. I think it's crazy.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I see no reason why church services have to be standard. I've discussed this with the man who used to be a pastor here at the Methodist Church in Sebastopol. I told him I saw no reason why, on a certain Sunday morning, if a minister has felt during the week the burden of a topic upon his heart and he knows that it is going to take more than the standard twenty minutes to discuss this thing, why he can't rise at the beginning of the service and say 'I have something of special importance this morning so let's sing just one song, and if you'll forgive me, I think I'm going to need about an hour to explain it to you.' I think the congregation would appreciate his candor and give him their attention. If, on the other hand, he does not feel that a definite message has been given him, why not admit it from the pulpit and say, 'This morning, I'm not going to try to make up something to fill the time. We'll sing a few extra hymns and go home!' Why do the services have to begin and end at the same time, and why does everything have to be so rigid?

~ Charles M. Schulz

I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as examples for others to become religious. If people are going to look at me for religious guidance, then I think they're looking in the wrong place.

~ Charles M. Schulz

All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)

~ Charles M. Schulz

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

~ Charles M. Schulz

There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!

~ Charles M. Schulz

You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone should vote for himself. Or we might just as well vote for Charlie Brown! Yes, next year we may even say, 'You're elected, Charlie Brown!

~ Charles M. Schulz

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!Maybe I could blame it on society!

~ Charles M. Schulz

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?''Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what you call a failure face, Linus. Notice how it has failure written all over it. Study it carefully Linus. You rarely see such a good example. Notice the deep lines, the dull vacant look in the eyes. Yes, I would say this is one of the finest examples of a failure face that your liable to see for a long while.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Cartooning will destroy you, it will break your heart.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Krazy Kat getting hit on the head by a brick from Ignatz Mouse is funny. All the sad things happening to Charlie Chaplin are funny. It's funny because it's not happening to us.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Rats! There goes the bell... oh, how I hate lunch hours! I always have to eat alone because nobody likes me... Peanut butter again... I wish that little red haired girl would come over, and sit with me. Wouldn’t it be great if she’d walk over here, and say, “May I eat lunch with you, Charlie Brown?” I’d give anything to talk with her... she’d never like me, though... I’m so blah and so stupid... she’d never like me... I wonder what would happen if I went over and tried to talk to her! Everyone would probably laugh... she’d probably be insulted someone as blah as I am tried to talk to her. I hate lunch hour... all it does is make me lonely... during class it doesn’t matter... I can’t even eat... Nothing tastes good... Rats! Nobody is ever going to like me... Lunch hour is the loneliest hour of the day!

~ Charles M. Schulz