Recommended quotes

„In friendship false, implacable in hate,
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.“

—  John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

Pt. I, lines 173–174.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

„Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs— and the journey to get there— before finally leaving their miserable world, only too often after a painful death.“

—  Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934

The Ten Trusts (2003), p. xv

„Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.“

—  Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981

„I'm the cream
Of the great utopia dream.
And you're in the gleam
In the depths of your banker's spleen.“

—  David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016

Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
Song lyrics, Space Oddity (1969)

„I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.“

—  Langston Hughes American writer and social activist 1902 - 1967

„There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.“

—  Tom Robbins, book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

„Being vegetarian was to inform everything, the course of my destiny. I was baffled that the entire hippie nation hadn't become vegetarian en masse. It made no sense as eating meat went against the whole dialogue. Were the hippies just as hypocritical as the rest of them? I couldn't admit that but I understood why I loved songs like “The Loner” so much. I didn't want to be like the majority anyway. The majority were always wrong.“

—  Chrissie Hynde Rock singer-songwriter and founder of Pretenders 1951

Reckless (2015)

„Help me find a way to pass the time Everybody tellin' me life's short, but I wanna die Help me find a way to make you mine Everybody tellin' me not to, but I'm gonna try Now I'm gettin' high again, tonight“

—  Lil Peep American rapper 1996 - 2017

Song ​The Brightside, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1

„Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech You Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.“

—  Cristoforo Colombo Explorer, navigator, and colonizer 1451 - 1506

Letter to the Sovereigns (1503)

„A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.“

—  Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

„The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.“

—  Immanuel Kant German philosopher 1724 - 1804

„All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.“

—  Ramana Maharshi Indian religious leader 1879 - 1950

„The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.“

—  Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983

Section 172
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

„Pain is just a consequence of love.“

—  Ariana Grande American singer-songwriter 1993

My Everything (2014)

„Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.“

—  Woody Guthrie American singer-songwriter and folk musician 1912 - 1967

„Indo-Fijians have a good future in Fiji but unfortunately they are being ill-advised, their community leaders lack good leadership.“

—  Hari Punja Fijian businessman 1936

Interview with World Investment News http://www.winne.com/fiji/vi04.html, 21 January 2003 (excerpts)

„I took part in all battles. If sometimes I was not there, the operation was likewise carried out under my orders.“

—  Omar Mukhtar Libyan resistance leader 1858 - 1931

Trial proceedings (15 September 1931)

„Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

„Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)