Quotes - Katelyn (katiekatekate) (Athens, AL) Showing 1-17 of 17

#1

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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#2

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

tags: family, humor, language, satire, simpsons, social-commentary

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#3

“Family will not agree on everything, nor will a family unit conform to one standard, but love is the common denominator that will bond a family.”
― Wayne Chirisa

tags: family-love, family-quotes, family-relationship, family-values, inspirational-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, motivational-quotes, positive-quotes

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#4

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: happiness

2309 likes

#5

“Defiance through compliance.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

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#6

“The best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

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#7

“Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat

tags: acceptance, future, life

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#8

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: daydream, dracula, hopes, sea

1042 likes

#9

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

tags: pain

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#10

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom

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#11

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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