“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”
Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge
Source: Postcards from the Edge
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“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
Ludwig Feuerbach book The Essence of Christianity
Source: The Essence of Christianity (1841)
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt.
Marcus Tullius Cicero book Laelius de Amicitia
Section 98
See also Esse quam videri
Source: Laelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC)
“hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”
Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author
Source: Liar's Game
“The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Laila, p. 250
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”
Janeane Garofalo (1964) comedian, actress, political activist, writer
standup performance, date unknown[citation needed]
Standup routines
“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”
Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
Sigmund Freud book The Future of an Illusion
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 7
“It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.”
Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer
Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
“The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
“Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses… white
Wordless Butterflies”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy