nameless’s most recent Quotables

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.

Most Girls say they want a fairy tale,
But you taught me that that's not really what I want.
I want someone who will make fun of me, and laugh at my jokes that aren't funny.
Someone who will wrestle with me, and not let me win just because I'm a girl.
Yeah, riding off into the sunset on a white horse would be nice, but playing thumb-war with you seems so much better.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him. And in that way he becomes immortal.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

My belt holds up my pants and my pants have belt loops that hold up the belt. What the f*ck’s really goin' on down there? Who is the real hero?

You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

All human evil comes from a single cause - man's inability to sit still in a room.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff... Nerds are allowed to LOVE stuff. Like, jump up and down in your chair, can’t control yourself LOVE IT. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff’. Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness.’

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.