Philisophical Quotes & Sayings

Its not the respect we hold when we are alive but after death!!
-Mahesh Shekhar — Mahesh Shekhar

Familiarity seems to breed contempt — Hunter S. Thompson

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out. — Carroll Bryant

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death. — Carroll Bryant

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it. — Carroll Bryant

I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination. — Carroll Bryant

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it! — Carroll Bryant

We need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. — Jandy Nelson

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again."
~Fiddler, pg. 558 — Steven Erikson

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are. — Carroll Bryant

You are the only one who can. — Carroll Bryant

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold. — Jason E. Royle

I believe in Individualism. Find out what makes you unique and develop it. Don't run with the herd. Set yourself apart so you can stand out. — Monica Koldyke Miller

On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map. — Chris Holm

Never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and once once's emotions become engaged in the play all is lost ... — Emery Lee

If you believe that God makes miracles you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve. — Jeff Lindsay

Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation. — Carroll Bryant

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy

Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of call when there's trouble. Parenting is a lifetime commitment. — Cindy Vine

Knowledge may be power, but half of what I know I wish I could forget. — Carroll Bryant

Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions? — Bash

There is no need to masturbate your brain, just to ejaculate your thoughts all over the place — Carroll Bryant

With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. "What are they doing?" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. "They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun."
"They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, "for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial. — Lewis Carroll

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing. — Carroll Bryant

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States ... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal. — Kurt Vonnegut

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. — L.M. Montgomery

After all, which would you rather do, pal, screw Bridget Bardot's brains out or read reviews of her movies? — M.T. Bass

Perhaps death is just a big lie. — Bella James

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? — George Berkeley

You are the guiding star of someone's existence — Carroll Bryant

This last year I've felt like one of those snowflakes we used to make in school. The ones where you fold the paper a certain way and then keep cutting and cutting until the paper is shredded. That's what I look like, a paper snowflake. And each hole has a name. And nobody, not you, not me, can fill the holes that someone else has left. All we can do is keep each other from falling in the holes and never coming out again. — Amy Harmon

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. — Paul Romer

Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster — Benny Bellamacina

Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side. — Andrea L'Artiste

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong — Kathryn Schulz