The great novels are deterrents. A Merck's manual on how not to live.
~ Marty Rubin
What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.
The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.
The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else.
Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.
Fire burns through thought.
When you enjoy a thought or activity, it's irrelevant whether it's meaningful or not.
Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses.
Life and love are never what you think they are.
There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth.
The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other.
Kisses are a shared solitude.
The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.
In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.
The wise oyster stays in its shell.
Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.
You get up each morning and do what you can to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.
We get up in the morning and do what we must to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.
A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.
What matters finally is how we feel about ourselves. After all, to a worm we're just food.
There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.
To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.
Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
The hammer never complains of the noise.
You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.
Self-consciousness is hell.
It's during a storm that the best songs get written.
A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.
Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.
It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
A complicated idea is a confused idea.
Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.
A philosophy must be livable, it can't just be ideas.
Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.
Nihilism is a subject for comedy.
Man is a problem-creating animal.
Nothing is more seductive than nothing.
When men set out to create order, they create only misery.
