Popular quotes

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“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right”

John Lydon book Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

“And yet I feel so sad for some reason.”

Vítězslav Nezval book Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

“There is no solution because there is no problem.”

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos…

So ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
Of anguish heart-stiking,
Of soul-killing fright.

Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone.
A world heard that cry.”

Anne McCaffrey Dragonsinger

“Harmony is next to Godliness”

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

“Without community, there is no liberation.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.”

Stephen King book The Body