“It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.”
~ Samuel Beckett; irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, poet and theater director.
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
~ George Bernard Shaw; irish writer and playwright.
“The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.”
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs; american author.
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
~ Vaclav Havel; czech writer, philosopher and statesman.
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
~ Robert Anson Heinlein; american science fiction author.
“It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in all times, men have come to receive the energy which they must have to live, should be made up of a tissue of illusions.”
~ David Emile Durkheim; french sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher.
“True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.”
~ Ronald David Laing; scottish psychiatrist.
“The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.”
~ David Cronenberg; canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.
“Poets are like proverbs, you can always find one to contradict another.”
~ Jules Verne; french novelist, poet and playwright.
“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off.”
~ Luis Bunuel; spanish-mexican filmmaker, artist and iconoclastic revolutionary of Surrealism.