Existentially Tired Quotes & Sayings

You have too many gurus in this country. They have told you what to do, what to think, what to practice. They are the dictators. — Radhanath Swami

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra

We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over. — Alain Resnais

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard. — Dinaw Mengestu

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless. — George Vecsey

I was about to try Skill Fifteen, which involved both breaking his nose and potentially ending his chances of ever having kids, when my captor bent down and whispered in my ear, Don't even think about it, Mercer. — Rachel Hawkins

We are all interconnected and interdependent, and because of this, we are all only as rich as we enrich those around us. I — Ben Hewitt

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo. — Friedrich Schiller

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria. — Adam Nevill

I could only strive to live so that my merit outweighed my discredit. — Kevin Hearne

This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels — Sophie Kinsella

Why Mr. Dickens, in his biography of that particular moment, preferred to focus on the adventures of the orphan parish child, Oliver Twist, remains a matter of speculation and mystery to all subsequent scribes of those long-departed times: of a London nearly two centuries gone, back when it was a pox-infested, grimy, depressing, fog-bound, class-favoring, sprawling, noxious, odorous, and overall distasteful place in which to live and breathe and sicken and die - as opposed to modern times, wherein the pox has been largely attended to; so that's progress of a sort. — Peter David

If others can do, why can't you? — Michael Jhon Agawin

If anti-gay stuff is always coming out of your mouth, something very gay is probably going in. — Bill Maher