Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Emma > Emma's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 3,669
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 99 100
sort by

    like
  • #1
    “Taking your own life. Interesting expression. Taking it from who? Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”
    ― Sherlock
    tags: bbc, benedict-cumberbatch, depression, sherlock, suicide
    4 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
    tags: death, humor, mortality, patience
    760 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights Special #1
    tags: apathy, desire, waiting
    4 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Emil M. Cioran
    “It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
    ― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
    tags: suicide
    1453 likes

    • like
  • #5
    J. Michael Straczynski
    “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2
    tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity
    1893 likes

    • like
  • #6
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The man who kills a man kills a man.
    The man who kills himself kills all men.
    As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: death, suicide
    421 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Bertrand Russell
    “There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”
    ― Betrand Russell
    tags: math, suicide
    78 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly
    351 likes

    • like
  • #11
    “There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.”
    ― Brian Hugh Warner
    tags: death, depression, empty, horror, life
    28 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: childhood, happiness
    2087 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “The emptiness in our lives is due to the ‘absence of all the right things,’ and the ‘presence of all the wrong things.’ And if there’s some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it’s that we’ve been successful at doing both of the above.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: choices, decisions, emptiness, empty, life-choices, right-things, wisdom, wrong-things
    4 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Plato
    “Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
    ― Plato
    tags: knowledge, morality, philosophy
    55 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Colleen Hoover
    “Confrontation leads to action. Avoidance leads to inaction.”
    ― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects
    tags: avoidance, marriage
    119 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Thomas Nagel
    “The question whether moral requirements are universal comes up not only when we compare the motives of different individuals, but also when we compare the moral standards that are accepted in different societies and at different times. Many things that you probably think are wrong have been accepted as morally correct by large groups of people in the past: slavery, serfdom, human sacrifice, racial segregation, denial of religious and political freedom, hereditary caste systems. And probably some things you now think are right will be thought wrong by future societies. Is it reasonable to believe that there is some single truth about all this, even though we can't be sure what it is? Or is it more reasonable to believe that right and wrong are relative to a particular time and place and social background?”
    ― Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
    tags: morality
    1 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: appreciate, appreciation, attitude, empty, entitlement, focus, full, grateful, optimist, orientation, owed, perspective, perspectives, pessimist, point-of-view, poor, rich, thankful, thanks, thanksgiving
    8 likes

    • like
  • #31
    John Scalzi
    “I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”
    ― John Scalzi, Old Man's War
    tags: best, bigger, bladder, empty, imagine, meet, pee, stranger, universe
    13 likes

    • like
  • #35
    Dean Koontz
    “On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.”
    ― Dean Koontz, The Bad Place
    tags: alone, empty, need, numb
    32 likes

    • like
  • #38
    Donna Lynn Hope
    “I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”
    ― Donna Lynn Hope
    tags: pain, resisting, surrender, temptation
    41 likes

    • like
  • #40
    Neil Gaiman
    “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    6475 likes

    • like
  • #43
    Eda J. LeShan
    “When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.”
    ― Eda LeShan
    108 likes

    • like
  • #44
    Charles Bukowski
    “the tired sunsets and the tired
    people -
    it takes a lifetime to die and
    no time at
    all.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: die, lifetime, people, sunsets, time, tired
    445 likes

    • like
  • #45
    James Baldwin
    “I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: giovannis-room, suicide, thoughts
    53 likes

    • like
  • #46
    Charles Bukowski
    “What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    1456 likes

    • like
  • #47
    Faraaz Kazi
    “He sits amongst the crowd, entirely alone.”
    ― Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply
    tags: alone, loneliness, lonely
    1 likes

    • like
  • #48
    “I wonder if at any point he regretted it. If there was a moment between deciding and dying when he changed his mind.”
    ― Val Emmichch
    tags: suicide
    1 likes

    • like
  • #49
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    899 likes

    • like
  • #50
    Confucius
    “And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: rockstar-physicist
    421 likes

    • like
  • #51
    Marie Lu
    “I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.”
    ― Marie Lu, Champion
    tags: tired
    129 likes

    • like
  • #52
    “I began to care a lot less about embarrassment after running into somebody who for months, I feared I would, and realizing afterward that my life was no different after the encounter than before.”
    ― Daniel V Chappell
    tags: behavior, embarrassment, humiliation, people, philosophy, psychology, resilience, stoicism
    2 likes

    • like
  • #53
    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
    5102 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 99 100
All Quotes



Tags From Emma’s Quotes

bbc
benedict-cumberbatch
depression
sherlock
suicide
death
humor
mortality
patience
apathy
desire
waiting
self-awareness
vanity
math
alone
appearance
beautiful
beauty
bukowski
classic
classics
loneliness
lonely
mirror
people
poem
poetry
reflection
self
self-esteem
soul
superficial
superficial-beauty
superficiality
ugly
empty
horror
life
childhood
happiness
choices
decisions
emptiness
life-choices
right-things
wisdom
wrong-things
knowledge
morality
philosophy
avoidance
marriage
appreciate
appreciation
attitude
entitlement
focus
full
grateful
optimist
orientation
owed
perspective
perspectives
pessimist
point-of-view
poor
rich
thankful
thanks
thanksgiving
best
bigger
bladder
imagine
meet
pee
stranger
universe
need
numb
pain
resisting
surrender
temptation
die
lifetime
sunsets
time
tired
giovannis-room
thoughts
rockstar-physicist
behavior
embarrassment
humiliation
psychology
resilience
stoicism