Niederhoffer Lake Quotes & Sayings

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp — Madeleine L'Engle

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to. — Melina Marchetta

Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing. — Mark Twain

I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath. — Aesop

But if I decide to decide there's a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won't the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision? — David Foster Wallace

The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives. — Kate Bornstein

My dark prince. The reaper. The man who spilled blood for me without pause. For that reason alone he'll always be on a pedestal that no other can reach. He'll always be the memory I revisit in my darkest of times. — A. Zavarelli

Life is a journey, not a destination. Happiness is not "there" but here, not "tomorrow" but today. — Sidney Greenberg

My eyes may not know all of you, but my heart does. I loved you before I was born, and I will love you long after I pass from this earth." Logan's — Dannika Dark

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. — Anwar Sadat