mrnice’s most recent Quotables

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.

Can one explain the magic of life to someone who cannot perceive it in the smallest everyday things?

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

I knew in my heart by pure logic that any man who calls himself a religious leader and owns more than one suit is a hustler as long as there is someone in the world who has no suit at all.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clear-cut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.