crumbs of wisdom

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
-Jane Austen

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
-Aristotle

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.
-Madeline L'Engle

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
-Sylvia Plath

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.
-Mark Twain

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
-Sylvia Plath

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
-Mark Twain

Nothing important is completely explicable.
-Madeline L'Engle

Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?
Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable?
Then one is alone, and if one is alone
Then lover and beloved are equally unreal
And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.
-T.S Eliot

You are beautiful, but you are empty.... No one could die for you.
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
-Sylvia Plath

As for me, I am watercolor.
I wash off.
-Anne Sexton

To have lived at all is to have scars.
-John Steinbeck

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
-Jane Austen

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
-George Orwell

One thing I truly knew — knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the centre of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest — was how love gave someone the power to break you.
-Stephenie Meyer

Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

Grief can take care of itself, but to get full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
-Mark Twain

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
-Lemony Snicket

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universeis also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to timeare merely the products of a deranged imagination.
-Douglas Adams

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.
-Sylvia Plath

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..." he murmured.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
-Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
-Lemony Snicket

"[his face hinted at] ardent sympathy, as though he would love all things if only nature would let him forget their defects."
-P. Pullman

i felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel moving dully along in the midst of the surrounding hullaballoo.
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

This planet has a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

We die to each other daily.
What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them. And they have changed since then.
-T.S Eliot

Life is a comedy to those who think, but this truth is not singular: life is a tragedy to those who feel.
-Jane Austen

My life is my message.
-Mahatma Ghandi