“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.”
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
Source: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), p. 123
“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
Variant: Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
Source: The Odyssey
“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
“Oh my god you're thicker than you look”
Source: The Faceless Ones
“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”
H 23
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)
“The peasantry are wiser in their ignorance than the savants of St Petersburg in their learning.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Six, The Flight From Laputa, p. 128
“There are various uses for time, and I have better ones than this.”
The End of Summer, p. 23
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”
History of the State of New York By John Romeyn Brodhead, pg 508 : 1660 on the education of Youth.
“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”
Address at Evanston Illinois (8 August 1954)
““It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,” she explained.”
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law.”
As quoted in With Prejudice : The Perspective of an Acquitted Defendent (2010) by Vicky Gallas; no earlier occurence of this phrasing has been located (Relevant quote: "Il n’y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l’on exerce à l’ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice" i.e. "There is no tyranny more cruel than that which is exercised within the shade of the law and with the colours of justice." See Chap. XIV of Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence).
Disputed
