140 quotes found
“Technology favors horrible people.”
“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”
“Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.”
“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”
“It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels”
“Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.”
“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living ins...”
“Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more person...”
“It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto thei...”
“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world without the efforts of everybody else on Earth. You saw and smelled and drank the ...”
“People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. De...”
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this s...”
“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other momentswe hear a word that sticks in ...”
“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we dont know why, and if we do find out why, its decades later and knowing why doesnt matter any more.”
“When someone tells you theyve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that theyre locked into jobs they hate; ...”
“She thought about her life and how lost shed felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths shed been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actu...”
“A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want ...”
“By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or any kind of professional. And by thirty, darkness starts moving in- y...”
“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
“TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
“...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost n...”
“Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the...”
“I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a ...”
“I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why ...”
