Depressing Transparent Quotes & Sayings

Why wastetime searching for answers when we'll never find them?Is there a God?Is there something else?It doesn't matter.You can choose to be a good person or you can choose to be a bad person,it's up to you.And you can spend all your life looking for answers to existential questions,but the only truth you'll ever find is that you've wasted your life. — Brent Saltzman

I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy. — Bob Newhart

It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path. — Alice Miller

The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment to the collective good. — Sebastian Junger

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' — Langston Hughes

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin

Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even when she was furious. And here he was standing in front of her, telling her he loved the words of her heart, the shape of her soul. Telling her something she had never imagined anyone would ever tell her. Telling her something she would never be told again, not in this way. And not by him." - Clockwork Prince — Cassandra Clare

The visitors sat down, languid, and content to rest. Seecombe brought cake and wine. — Daphne Du Maurier

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. — Joe Biden

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant

Letting emotions go clouds judgment for a moment, but holding them in clouds it always. — Robert Jordan

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas. — John William Draper

The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons. — Tom Wujec