Amok Makers Gonna Quotes & Sayings

So those are the direct answers human wisdom gives when it answers the question of life. "The life of the body is evil and a lie. And therefore the destruction of this life of the body is something good, and we must desire it," says Socrates. "Life is that which ought not be - an evil - and the going into nothingness is the sole good of life," says Schopenhauer. "Everything in the world - folly and wisdom and riches and poverty and happiness and grief - all is vanity and nonsense. Man will die and nothing will remain. And that is foolish," says Solomon. "One must not live with awareness of the inevitability of suffering, weakness, old age, and death - one must free oneself from life, from all possibility of life," says Buddha. And what these powerful intellects said was said and thought and felt by millions and millions of people like them. And I too thought and felt that. — Leo Tolstoy

On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light? Or just patches of grey? — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Some souls aren't worth saving, I thought. There're some souls that even the devil wants no part of. — David Joy

When men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty. — Ilka Chase

I shall grind your bones to powder," he hollered, transfixing the three Gentlemen Bastards with his gleaming eyes. "And with that dust I'll make cement for paving stones, and for a hundred years to come you'll have no rest beneath the crush of strange wheels and the tramp of strange boots! Drunkards will make their unclean water upon you, and I shall laugh to think of it, — Scott Lynch

She'd just have to pray that the immortality gracing her blood would drive off any infection. — Sarah J. Maas

The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money. — John D. Rockefeller

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants. — Michel De Montaigne

Ninjas don't splash other ninjas, — John Green

Failure to recognize the difficulty in escaping a situation of high debt intolerance simply through growth and gently falling ratios of debt to GNP is one of the central errors underlying many standard calculations employed both by the private sector and by official analysts during debt crises. — Anonymous

When I came off the phone, I told Stewart about the hot tub. He laughed. 'Well, at least we've got our dookers with us. — Gary Sutherland

Tired with the Labour of Far Travel We Have Come unto Our Own Home O — Patrick Taylor

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill. — Rae Carson

India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Suddenly absurdism wasn't an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort - and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace. — George Saunders