Quotes on people/life

"The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action."

-- Hartlley's first law

"I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."

-- Oriah Mountain

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

-Charles Dickens

"What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

--Jane Austen

(I hope this quote applies to the topic, I wasn't too sure.)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On."

-Robert Frost

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

-Albert Einstein

I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore, I am perfect.

I believe there are monsters in the world born to human parents.

When I said Cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so. Now I have bent close with a glass over the small print of her and reread the footnotes, and I wonder if it was true. The trouble is that since we cannot know what she wanted, we will never know whether or not she got it. If rather than running toward something, she ran away from something, we can’t know whether she escaped. Who knows but that she tried to tell someone or everyone what she was like and could not for lack of a common language. Her life may have been her language, formal, developed, indecipherable. It is easy to say she was bad, but there is little meaning unless we know why.

Why do we do the things we do?

People are only mean when they are threatened…and that’s what our culture does.

How can I be envious of where you are – when I’ve been there myself?

Who wants to live every day when you don’t know what’s going on?

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want – someone to notice she was there.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted….And most of us live somewhere in the middle.


((I don't necessarily agree with the idea that life is made up of opposites...but I do agree with pulls back and forth. They're a bit different. : ) ))

Instead, I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments I believed I could control things.

I’m too ugly to be a narcissist.

I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don’t know any of these people. But – how can I explain this? – I’m almost…drawn to them.

What’s wrong with being number two?

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals. You know it."

- Agent K, Men in Black

People are always dumber in groups.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one.

I think it's impossible to truly understand someone unless you love them the way they love themselves.