Quotes you live by

[Mœbius]

"Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal - less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him"

-Emil Cioran

 

[Bum Driller]

"There is only one kind of freedom in this world; to stand up like a warrior, or to crawl like a worm."
- Don Juan in some book by Carlos Castaneda

"I choose to place my bets on the future. At least it's somewhere where we can actually get to."
- King Mob in Invisibles by Grant Morrison.

"We can drink their venom and piss vintage champagne."
- Also from Invisibles, but can't remember where.

"What is heavenly god, other than immortal man? And what is the earthly man, other than mortal god?"
- Hermes Trismegistos in Corpus Hermeticum

"People call me fool, as I refuse to sell my days for gold and silver. And I call them mad for thinking that the worth of my days could be measured in gold and silver."
- Kahlil Gibran, Proverbs

"You think that I've come to bring peace upon the world. But you're wrong; I bring no peace, but fire, war and sword. And between those of whom other wants peace and other wants war, I place a sword."

and

"Seek until you find, and don't rest unti you've found. And when you do find, you will come to a great confusion, and afterwards you shall reign above all."

and

"Who is close to me is close to fire. And who is far from me is far from the truth."

- Jesus of Nazareth, in the Gospel of Thomas.



and of course

"Who lives without discipline, dies without dignity."

 

[Begemot]

It's sad how stupid it is, that there are two "sides" instead of actually having thoughts of your own, no, instead, pick a side like it's some fucking sportsball team, and then that's the "side" you're on, even if it's completely fucking retarded. You don't get to have your own opinion, you just get to join a team.

Fuck this gay, stupid world.

Stop equivocating, sweetie, you either choose the 'right side of history' or abject Fascism, there's nothing in between.....

 

[BruhSheep]

"This, too, shall pass."
Not sure who said it or where I first heard it, but always a great reminder that no matter how shitty things are in the moment, it can get better.

"(Relationships) are not a contest, it's not about who 'wins'. It's a team effort."
Advice from my own father.

 

[Skookum Jim]

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it is so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and double chin and stick out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. -Roald Dahl.

It's pretty childish, but i've had it ring true more times than I can count. Some of the nicest people i've ever met have been weird lookin motherfuckers, and some of the biggest assholes were bombshells and hunks, but in hindsight you can always see it in their face. Maybe humans are just way better at reading faces and eyes than we really know, windows into the soul and all that. Maybe i'm just reading way too far into a quote, but it's stuck with me.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

"Don't be so quick to save the life of your enemy that he cuts off your head."

-von Clausewitz

 

[AnOminous]

"I agree with Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini that the writer should serve his society." Kurt Vonnegut

 

[Doji]

"If it ain't broken don't fix it."

 

[CowPox]

Nothing is true everything is permitted.

 

[RougeRed]

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov

 

[Karakhalkin-Gol]

A bit meta, but I think it counts.

Kiwi Farms' disappearance should be a indicator that the future of the internet is basically a virtual China: thou shalt consume, and thou shalt never think against the norm. A bleak vision, and one I hope to never, ever see in my lifetime.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

"Think like a pirate, act like a businessman." - Every corporate backstabber out there

 

[The Foxtrot]

"An animal caught in a trap would gnaw off its own leg to escape. A human would endure the trap, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and rid his species of a threat. What will you do?" - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

 

[Esau]

"Allow me to remind you that there is no memory that time does not efface, no pain that death does not destroy."

""Well, whatever bigger disaster could there be' retorted Sancho, "than the ones that has to wait for time to efface it and death to destroy it?"

-Don Quixote, Chapter XV

 

[Wesley Willis]

"9/11 was a national tragedy." - Norm MacDonald

 

[murph]

A frog wishes he had wings so he wouldn't bump his ass jumping off a log

 

[AnOminous]

AD: Don't get your taco in a twist, baby.
V: Was that you trying to be sexist? Or racist?
AD: Whatever pisses you off more.

Angel Dust from Hazbin Hotel

 

[AnOminous]

Also is search broken? I could swear I've posted this one before.

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." H.L. Mencken

 

[AnOminous]

Bizarre. I'm surprised XenForo contemplated something like this but apparently I just posted from the future.

Also sorry for doubleposting.

 

[AnOminous]

And also sorry for tripleposting.

I'll also preemptively apologize for quadrupleposting before this gets too recursive.