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Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks. - Matthew Desmond

I'll be back-Terminator

Because I remember, I despair. – Elie Weisel

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― Roy T. Bennett

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“How people die remains in the memory of those who live on” – Dame Cicely Saunders

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them. - H. P. Lovecraft

Hatred is like drinking poison to harm someone else.

Not sure

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. Albert Camus

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. - Cesare Pavese

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. - Francis Bacon

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe

Good artists create, but great artists steal


Not sure

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. - Henry David Thoreau

One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about. - H.P. Lovecraft

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. - Havelock Ellis

“You are not your resume, you are your work.” — Seth Godin, Author

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. - Ronald Reagan

Only a fool boasts of his ancestors


Chinese proverb

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. - Lee Iacocca

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. – Orson Scott Card

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

It's because I'm smarter than the average bear. - Yogi Bear

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. - Samuel Butler

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. - Stephen Hawking

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. – Wilson Mizner

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

Where wealth accumulates, men decay. - Oliver Goldsmith

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.” – Ann Landers

The coward only threatens when he is safe. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before...-Edgar Allen Poe

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ----Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. - Salman Rushdie

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Benjamin Franklin

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. - Albert Einstein

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing

Life is a book you write, not a movie you watch. Maxime Lagacé

It can never be satisfied, the mind, never. - Wallace Stevens

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
- Gloria Steinem

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. - Richard Bach

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.
Martha Ostenso

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
-William Faulkner

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? - Chuck Palahniuk

I am the only original member. -Amy Lee

"When people say there's too much violence in my books, what they're really saying is there's too much reality in life"


Joyce Carol Oates

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist