Aphorisms: The Best Collection of Wise Words and Sayings.

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
Kurt Vonnegut

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
Bob Dylan

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
– Austin Phelps

“It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.”
–Bob Dylan

" Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
By William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.”

Charles Bukowski

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
• Elbert Hubbard

“There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.”
~Christopher Hitchens

"And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea, eventually"
– Jimi Hendrix

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
~ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.”
—Edward Abbey

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
— Leonardo da Vinci.

"You're on earth. There's no cure for that."
— Samuel Beckett

" We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
-Kurt Vonnegut

“I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.”
- Albert Camus

"If the truth shall kill them, let them die."
• Ayn Rand

„It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.“
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
—Ecclesiastes, 1:18, The Bible

"One should always be drunk . . . But what with? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk."
- Charles Baudelaire

"In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard."
— Nicholas Sparks

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

• Anne Frank.

‘Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half the population is more stupid than that.’ George Carlin

Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!
Groucho Marx

“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge – it is as immortal as the heart of man.”
~ William Wordsworth

"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.'

— William Shakespeare

“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.”
Billie Holiday

Все думают, что придёт время, а время только уходит.

" Invisible things are the only realities."
~ Edgar Allan Poe

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”

— James Dean

You cannot save people
you can only love them.
—Anais Nin

Some stories are written with pen.
Some stories are written with pain.

I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
~ Robert Benchley...

" When i had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes.

If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport.
~ Jonathan Winters.

“I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”

—Franz Kafka

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
-- John Keats

"Saying nothing, sometimes says the most. "
- Emily Dickinson

The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.
~ George Roberts...

"Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get."
— Riza Prasetyaningsih

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. ”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love..”
- Mother Teresa -

" Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. "
• Albert Camus

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” Franz Kafka

"Meaningful silence is better
than meaningless words."

~ Pythagoras

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved.”
– Victor Hugo

“From My Rotting Body, Flowers Shall Grow, and I Am in Them, and That Is Eternity.”
~Edvard Munch

"In the end you'll understand that bad experiences are also needed.
The ones you remember will make you strong, The ones you forget will make you happy."
~Anthony Cornetta

We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.
~ WH Auden...

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

― Alfred Tennyson

The best cure for Sea Sickness, is to sit under a tree.
~ Spike Milligan...

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
~ Harrison Ford...

"Unless I'm myself. I'm nobody."

• Virginia Woolf

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. ~Haruki Murakami

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

- May Sarton

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
— Anaïs Nin

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf,
From “A Room of One’s Own”

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long"

•Pablo Neruda

The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
~ Jean Kerr...

“By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he is too old to go anywhere.”
— Billy Crystal

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
—Oscar Wilde

“The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits.”
— Hemingway

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The first thing reading teaches us is how to be alone.”

~Jonathan Francen~

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
By Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”
― John Lennon

“Can you remember who you were,
before the world told you who
you should be.”
--Charles Bukowski

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
Jean Rhys

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
~ Oscar Wilde

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― A.A. Milne

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

—Michel de Montaigne, Essais

“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”
― John Lennon

"She loves me all that she can,
And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
And she never will be all mine."

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple.“

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The years are flying past and we all waste so much time wondering if we dare to do this or that. The thing is to leap, to try, to take a chance.”
Leonard Cohen

“Once you choose hope,
anything is possible.”
~ Christopher Reeve