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I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose! ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#crowd #individuality #life #life

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#life #longer #more #shelf #shelf life

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture. ↗

— George Eliot

#bigotry #harriet-beecher-stowe #jokes #stupidity #education

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#life

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like. ↗

— Will Rogers

#money #people #pride #will-rogers #life

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#crazy #crazy-people #phoenix #stupid #stupid-people

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fear #inaction #just-do-it #risk #timidity

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait. ↗

— Erica Jong

#life

It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops. And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#humor #life #suicide #work #business

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#defeat #journey #life #other-side #stop