“But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive.”

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it”

“If I converse with a strong mind and a rough disputant, he presses upon my flanks, and pricks me right and left; his imaginations stir up mine, jealousy, glory, and contention, stimulate and raise me up to something above myself; and acquiescence is a quality altogether tedious in discourse.”

“Folly is a bad quality; but not to be able to endure it, to fret and vex at it, as I do, is another sort of disease little less troublesome than folly itself; and is the thing that I will now accuse in myself.”

“It is taking one's conjectures rather seriously to roast someone alive for them.”

“Moreover, vulgar and casual opinions are something more than nothing in nature; and he who will not suffer himself to proceed so far, falls, peradventure, into the vice of obstinacy, to avoid that of superstition.”

“Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.... The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”

“for as I know only too well from experience when we lose those we love there is no consolation sweeter than the knowledge of having remembered to tell them everything and to have enjoyed the most perfect and absolute communication with them.”

“[Folly never thinks it has enough, even when it obtains what it desires, but Wisdom is happy with what is to hand and is never vexed with itself.]3”

“I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it, and cheerfully surrender myself, and open my conquered arms as far off as I can discover it; and, provided it be not too imperiously, take a pleasure in being reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense.”

“Wie overal is, is nergens.”

-"On restraining your will.”

“In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”

“For being the more learned, they are none the less fools.”

“it is myself I paint. My”

“There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.”

“The natural, original distemper of Man is presumption.”

“For I never see the whole of anything; nor do those who promise to show it to us.”

“Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb."

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”

“I keep telling myself: anything that can be done some other day can be done today.xiii”

“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36”

“Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human.”

“Each man contains the entire pattern of the human condition. There”

“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.”

“Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.”

“All the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die.”

“I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.”

“Wonder is the foundation of all... Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”

“Why do you judge a man when he is all wrapped up like a parcel? He is letting us see only such attributes as do not belong to him while hiding the only ones which enable us to judge his real worth.”

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”

“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.”

“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”

“Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees”

“That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.”

“…those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.”

“If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.”

“She finally managed to free her fingers from his. “I know how to run without you holding my hand!”

“Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.”

“When people don’t have access to facts, they invent what they’d like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.”

“Chewie, we’re home,”

“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)”

“Never underestimate a droid,”

“you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible.”

“That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock”