February 2011
40 posts
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley (via ageofreason)
“The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian...”
– John Adams (via ageofreason)
“We live our lives in anticipation of the next hit of experience as if the one...”
– Joseph Goldstein (via politefight)
“Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via ageofreason)
January 2011
120 posts
“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via human-voices)
“Silence may be a much more interesting way of having a relationship with...”
– Michel Foucault (via philphys)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via libraryland)
“Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via human-voices)
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– from The Captain is Out to Lunch… by Charles Bukowski (via lqlqlq)
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via fuckyeahexistentialism, savagemike)
“ “For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious,...”
– Carlos Castaneda (anthropologist), Journey to Ixtlan (via amiquote)
“… And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
– J.K. Rowling ♥ (via fornowjustcarryon)
“After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and...”
– Veronica A. Shoffstall (via quote-book)
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“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” —Oscar Wilde
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness...”
– from The Mysteries of Berkeley, by Michael Chabon (via human-voices)
“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief...”
– Naked, David Sedaris (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends...”
– Megan McCafferty (via make-me-smile)
“Do me a favor… Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look...”
– Chad Sugg (via fuckyeahbackseatgoodbye)
“Little pieces of you get chipped away by another person, and you shave little...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via itookadeepbreath)
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, whose birthday is today. In his honor, take out some books by or about him from NYPL. (via nypl)
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider...”
– George Carlin (via philphys)
“…in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov. (via voirlesanges-)
“Who will save me from existence? It isn’t death that I want, or life: it’s the...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via antevorta)
“After all, nothing can happen that is worse than death - and you can’t avoid...”
– A Hero of Our Time, Lermontov (via practicalcats)
“What an astonishing thing a book is. Across the millennia, an author is speaking...”
– Carl Sagan (via invaderxan) (via teachingliteracy)
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters (via euphoriaaaa)
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein [Submitted by -sirrah] (via quote-book)
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...”
– Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma)