Fuck it. Here's some of my private salubrious quote stash:
“That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.” - H.P. Lovecraft
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” - Richard Feynmann
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” - George Orwell
"The fool on the hill sees the sun going down and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round." - The Beatles
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” ― John von Neumann
“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.” — H.P. Lovecraft
"cable commentariat as a cog in the corpulent D.C. fleshpot." Ilana Mercer
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." George RR Martin
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.”- Oren Harari
"As for me, I a tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
“In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” - Rudiger Dornbusch
"The Supreme Art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." – Sun Tzu
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H.P. Lovecraft
"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it." - Lily Tomlin
"I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
"Less time than it takes to say it, less tears than it takes to die; I've taken account of everything, there you have it. I've made a census of the stones, they are as numerous as my fingers and some others; I've distributed some pamphlets to the plants, but not all were willing to accept them. I've kept company with music for a second only and now I no longer know what to think of suicide, for if I ever want to part from myself, the exit is on this side and, I add mischievously, the entrance, the re-entrance is on the other. You see what you still have to do. Hours, grief, I don't keep a reasonable account of them; I'm alone, I look out of the window; there is no passerby, or rather no one passes (underline passes). You don't know this man? It's Mr. Same. May I introduce Madam Madam? And their children. Then I turn back on my steps, my steps turn back too, but I don't know exactly what they turn back on. I consult a schedule; the names of the towns have been replaced by the names of people who have been quite close to me. Shall I go to A, return to B, change at X? Yes, of course I'll change at X. Provided I don't miss the connection with boredom! There we are: boredom, beautiful parallels, ah! how beautiful the parallels are under God's perpendicular. "
- Andre Breton
"Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young."
— A. E. Housman, 1859-1936
Obviously I have more, but these appeal to me on a fundamental level. As a side-note make sure to acquaint yourself with post-WW1 poetry and art, it is pure and unfiltered. No pretension, simply raw emotion and even if it is anti-cultural and largely marxist, it marked a great flowering in human thought after the dark and depressing years spent in the trenches.
Agreed. OP go fuck yourself with a gardening rake nice thread tho
