Marty Rubin Quotes & Sayings

Everything is clear, except the words men use. — Marty Rubin

Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy. — Marty Rubin

The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high — Marty Rubin

Art always springs from a surplus of life — Marty Rubin

Moths lay their eggs where civilizations have been destroyed. — Marty Rubin

Beauty is nonchalance. — Marty Rubin

Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against. — Marty Rubin

Don't stare out the window; run through the fields. — Marty Rubin

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone. — Marty Rubin

One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart. — Marty Rubin

Intuition: the feeling one knows something when one knows nothing. — Marty Rubin

There is music the moment you start listening. — Marty Rubin

Is that so tragic: to die not knowing? — Marty Rubin

Diseased organs get the most attention. — Marty Rubin

The great difficulty in life is deciding what and what not to pay attention to. — Marty Rubin

What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control. — Marty Rubin

Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart. — Marty Rubin

I'm more curious to know what a cat think than what a philosopher thinks. — Marty Rubin

We humans are part of nature and whatever creative talents we might have come from nature and are part of nature's gift to us. — Marty Rubin

To dance sublimely, one has to forget all about dancing. — Marty Rubin

People shouldn't question their desires. They should just live. — Marty Rubin

Ruins are the cathedrals of Time. — Marty Rubin

Drug-pushers, God-pushers, sex-pushers, art-pushers-all kinds of pushers. — Marty Rubin

It is not miserable to have a heart, it is miserable to deny it. — Marty Rubin

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one. — Marty Rubin

God, unity, meaning, transcendence all belong to the imagination. — Marty Rubin

Beware of what you teach your children in the womb. — Marty Rubin

Truth's opposite is not a lie, but a hundred thousand lies. — Marty Rubin

All explanations tend to be self-serving. — Marty Rubin

Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked. — Marty Rubin

Creativity should include everything that makes one feel alive. — Marty Rubin

It is easier to debunk a thousand myths than to write one true sentence. — Marty Rubin

A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot. — Marty Rubin

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity. — Marty Rubin

I tend to believe simple things are the real things. — Marty Rubin

Happiness doesn't think, it is. — Marty Rubin

What is the meaning of a cactus flower? It exists, that's all. — Marty Rubin

I don't need anyone else to tell me how to be alive. — Marty Rubin

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise. — Marty Rubin

Where the rich are concerned, the law goes begging. — Marty Rubin

Writing is like giving birth to yourself. — Marty Rubin

What a sad life when one loves nothing and no one. — Marty Rubin

Do everything and nothing is done. — Marty Rubin

Knowing what you don't want is the same thing as knowing nothing. — Marty Rubin

Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous. — Marty Rubin

The only magic cure is to endure. — Marty Rubin

Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition. — Marty Rubin

Summer is the season of wild birds. — Marty Rubin

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing — Marty Rubin

Every day you live is a holiday from death. — Marty Rubin

You don't have to have a dream for it to come true. — Marty Rubin

Faith is pretending that you're not pretending. — Marty Rubin

Spiders will build their webs no matter how many laws you pass against it. — Marty Rubin

One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself. — Marty Rubin

Happiness is contagious. The more I think about it the happier I am. — Marty Rubin

The true skeptic is skeptical even about skepticism. — Marty Rubin

Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing. — Marty Rubin

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it. — Marty Rubin

Even when one sleeps one is not wasting one's time. — Marty Rubin

It is better to pay attention than to have ideas about things. — Marty Rubin

Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can't do. — Marty Rubin

It's always the 'others' who are deceived. — Marty Rubin

Touch is a more powerful communicator than words. — Marty Rubin

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics. — Marty Rubin

Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around. — Marty Rubin

When you split a pie up evenly, everyone gets the worst piece. — Marty Rubin

What makes any life beautful is the simple fact of living it. — Marty Rubin

Live! It's no good if you just think about it. — Marty Rubin

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me. — Marty Rubin

Where ambition and achievement are overvalued, human lives will be undervalued, — Marty Rubin

I prefer the lightness of laughter to the heaviness of thought. — Marty Rubin

Be grateful to the gullible heart! — Marty Rubin

Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars. — Marty Rubin

Time spent thinking about life is better spent enjoying it. — Marty Rubin

The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart — Marty Rubin

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth. — Marty Rubin

You don't analyze a kiss. You kiss. — Marty Rubin

The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want. — Marty Rubin

Leaves, while they live, hang together; dying, they fall one by one. — Marty Rubin

In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real. — Marty Rubin

What is is plenty, but more is never enough. — Marty Rubin

A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own. — Marty Rubin

You don't learn art from life, or life from art. — Marty Rubin

We are all on loan to each other and nothing belongs to us. — Marty Rubin

Don't resist! Open the door when love comes knocking. — Marty Rubin

The main thing is to be full of life. Everything else is secondary. — Marty Rubin

The hardest thing: not to take loss personally. — Marty Rubin

People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can't bend it to their will. — Marty Rubin

Nothing revives hope and confidence like a good fantasy. — Marty Rubin

The Garden of Eden still exists; there are just no people in it. — Marty Rubin

People always say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is. — Marty Rubin

Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness. — Marty Rubin

No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night. — Marty Rubin

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it. — Marty Rubin

The existence of things does not depend on the existence of words. — Marty Rubin

Nothing is special if this moment isn't special. — Marty Rubin

Death kills you once; worry kills you every day. — Marty Rubin

The artist is always dancing with death. — Marty Rubin

It's not an artist's job to change people or save the world. — Marty Rubin

What all life has faced and experienced before you, you still have to face and experience yourself. — Marty Rubin