Philosophical Musings Quotes

Life is too short to bullshit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Sometimes the answer is in the question.

~ Cristina Smith

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

~ R.d. Ronald

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

~ Sophocles

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

~ Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

~ Kresley Cole

They said, Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

~ Qur'an 2 30

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

~ Bill Murray

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

~ Palle Oswald

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

~ Palle Oswald

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

~ Linda Collison

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.

~ R.d. Ronald

I have begun to wonder where I came from. The person I am now, this fumbling, stumbling supplicant... was I built on the foundations of my old life, or did I rise from the grave a blank state? How much of me is inherited, and how much is my own creation? Questions that were once just idle musings have begun to feel strangely urgent. Am I firmly rooted to what came before? Or can I choose to deviate?

~ Isaac Marion

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

~ R.d. Ronald

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

~ R.d. Ronald

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work, it is what I do.

~ Shannon Winslow

All is a forever.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices behind masks of piety, honour, and decency. And that to denounce evildoers without proof, attack them with weapons, trust blindly in reason or justice, is often the fastest road toward one's own perdition, while the scoundrels who use influence or money as a shield remained untouched.

~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas