Quotes

• 2011-11-02

  There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  — Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via paintmysilence)

  Source: paintmysilence

• 2011-10-28

  So therefore, I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger- because I cannot dedicate myself to any human being.

  — Jack Kerouac (via suzywire)

  (via suzywire)

  Source: lonely-living

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  The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.

  — David Levithan  (via gabiiescobar)

  (via loveyourchaos)

  Source: gabiiescobar

• 2011-10-12

  Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

  — The Dalai Lama when asked what most surprised him about humanity

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  I fought against everything, but more and more I worry that I was never for anything. Oh, i can criticize and complain and judge everything, but what does that get me? Griping isn’t the same as creating something. Rebelling isn’t rebuilding. Ridiculing isn’t replacing. We’ve taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. All of our making fun of things isn’t making the world any better. We’ve spent so much time judging what other people created that we’ve created very, very little of our own. I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. It only looks as if we’ve accomplished something. But in the end, I’ve never contributed anything worthwhile to this world.

  — Chuck Palahniuk