- "...had I not a friend left in the world; were there not a single house open to me in pity; had I to accept the wallet and ragged cloak of sheer penury: as long as I am free from all resentment, hardness and scorn, I would be able to face the life with much more calm and confidence than I would were my body in purple and fine linen, and the soul within me sick with hate. And I really shall have no difficulty. When you really want love you will find it waiting for you."-Oscar Wilde
- "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."-Oscar Wilde
- "Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne."("Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be.")-Anne Boleyn's Motto
- "Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.".-John Keats
- "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."-Marcus Aurelius
- "How does the meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom, bold."-William Wordsworth
- "I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."-Erasmus
- "I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?"-John Green
- "Life-you make it what it is. Love-can change it with a kiss."-Cat Stevens
- "Love one another"-the last words of George Harrison
- "Millions of books written on every conceivable subject by all these great minds and in the end, none of them knows anything more about the big questions of life than I do ... I read Socrates. This guy knocked off little Greek boys. What the Hell's he got to teach me? And Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. It's not worth it. And Freud, another great pessimist. I was in analysis for years and nothing happened. My poor analyst got so frustrated, the guy finally put in a salad bar. Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer."-Woody Allen
- "My sweet girl, I am living today in yesterday. I was in a complete fascination all day. I feel myself at your mercy. Write me ever so few lines and tell me you will never forever be less kind to me than yesterday. You dazzled me. There is nothing in the world so bright and delicate. You have absorbed me. I have a sensation at the present moment as if I was dissolving."-John Keats to Fanny Brawne
- "Non, je ne regrette rien."-Édith Piaf
- "Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."-Oscar Wilde
- "She walks in beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyes."-Lord Byron
- "Some people are single. Others are soloists."-Roger Ebert
- "That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing"-Woody Allen
- "There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. *The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."-Hindu Proverb
- "Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."-Elizabeth I
- "Times, places, people. They're all speeding up. So to cope with this evolutionary paranoia, strange people are chosen who, through their art, can progress more quickly." -Mandy Slade
- "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."-Oscar Wilde
- "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." -Woody Allen
- "When we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through a banqueting hall on a winter’s day. After a few moments of comfort he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while; but of what went before this life or what will follow, we know nothing."-Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book II, Chapter 13)
- "Why shouldn’t we cry? They tell us to stop crying about twelve, “Be a man.” What the hell’s that? Men hurt."-John Lennon
- "You have to talk to people in order to love them and have loving relationships with them. You have to talk to them. You have to treat them as people and not just as sets of ideas or things that make you nervous."-John Green
- "You will hear things like, ‘Science doesn’t know everything.’ Well, of course science doesn’t know everything. But, because science doesn’t know everything, it doesn’t mean that science knows nothing. Science knows enough for us to be watched by a few million people now on television, for these lights to be working, for quite extraordinary miracles to have taken place in terms of the harnessing of the physical world and our dim approaches towards understanding it. And as Wittgenstein quite rightly said, 'When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.'"-Stephen Fry
- “...in the world what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment or anything else is kindness. And the more in the world you encounter kindness, and cheerfulness (which is kind of its amiable uncle or aunt), just the better the world always is – and all the big words: virtue, justice, truth, are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.” -Stephen Fry
- “All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak — and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”-W.A.Mozart
- “Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.” -Jacques Barzun
- “I could ride across the sky in a bicycle built for two. Could you teach me how to ride, like you taught me how to feel alive?”-Alex Day
- “I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.”-John Lennon
- “Preserve your memories; they’re all that’s left you.”-Simon & Garfunkel
- “You wouldn’t know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing ‘Subtle Plans Are Here Again.’”-Blackadder
- Clementine: "This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon." Joel: "I know." Clementine: "What do we do?" Joel: "Enjoy it."
- Endymion Stanza I by John Keats
- Hugh: "Oh, by the way. Love that body." Stephen: "Thanks. It’s mine."
- Stephane: "She smiles. I bend over a rock to try to reach her. My stomach, compressed, hurts. Stephanie? Can you hold my hand, I cannot sleep. She takes it, I fall asleep."
- The Doctor: "The last time, with Martha, it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate." Donna Noble: "You just want to mate?" The Doctor: "I just want *a* mate!" Donna Noble: "You're not matin' with me Sunshine!" The Doctor: "A mate! I want *a* mate!" Donna Noble: "Well, just as well, because I'm not having any of that nonsense! I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing, y'know, alien nothing!"
- Thomas: "Et un jour, tu m’as embrassée. Le temps passait, le temps fuyait, et tout semble si facile, si simple, si libre, si nouveau, si unique." ("And one day, you kissed me. Time went by, time flew. And everything seemed so easy, so simple, so free, so new, so unique."
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