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“...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.”
― Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Take

“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made the prospect of feeling worthwhile. Daily he woke up and cast downtrodden eyes upon the sea and he would say to himself with a hint of regret at his hitherto lack of indifference, 'All a dim illusion, was it? Surely it was foolish of me to think any of this had meaning.' He would then spend hours staring at the sky, wondering how best to pass the time if everything—even the sky itselfâ€� were for naught. He arrived at the conclusion that there was no best way to pass the time. The only way to deal with the illusion of time was to endure it, knowing full well, all the while, that one was truly enduring nothing at all. Unfortunately for him, this nihilistic resolution to dispassion didn’t suit him very well and he soon became extremely bored. Faced now with the choice between further boredom and further suffering, he impatiently chose the latter, sailing another few weeks along the coast , and then inland, before finally dropping anchor off the shores of the fishing village of Yami.”
― Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable

“Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.”
― Keith Caserta, Soul Searching

“And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over”
― V S Naipaul

“Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say."

"What?" Vimes' sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference -”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

“To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.”
― Gary Inbinder

“Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.”
― Theodor Fontane

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”
― Núria Añó

“If I had but the time and you had but the brain”
― Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark

“You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There's been twelve TV documentaries, three movies and eight books about me. I'm more popular than any of these designed-by-pedophile pop moppets littering the music television and the gossip columns. I've killed more people than Paris Hilton has desemenated, I was famous before she was here and I'll be famous after she's gone. I am the mainstream. I am, in fact, the only true rock star of the modern age. Every newspaper in America never fails to report on my comeback tours, and I get excellent reviews.”
― Warren Ellis, Crooked Little Vein

“Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.”
― Quentin Crisp

“It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief.”
― Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

“And why are you wearing plastic?

It's not plastic, Nate said, affronted.
It's the same material mountain climbers use for protection at high altitudes.

Hmm she said. You know Toronto's almost at sea level, right?”
― Ausma Zehanat Khan, Among the Ruins

“My romantic decisions and life have been so fascinating that I feel like a character straight out of one of Taylor Swift’s hit songs.”
― Anna Rajmon, ELIS: Irish call girl

“You're not a killer," I whisper one last time. Then I drop to the ground, twisting as I roll to light up his form with my flashlight.

Inside Vaughn's cabin, Aolani pulls the trigger.

A single crack. Brent crumples where he stands.

"But now I am," I finish.”
― Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere

“..eight or nine women and one extremely serious-looking man had decided to spend their Monday evening exercising with a demonic workout instructor n the Flatbush District rather than doing something sensible, like restocking their wine supply or doing a crossword.”
― Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

“She pressed me for information, not punched me in the face, but in small towns among small groups of friends, there is little difference between those two things. Ryan can hold a grudge.”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“But the way he was acting made me feel like I was just chopping it up with someone instead of being grilled.”
― Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck

“Life is ironic. Barring certain medical treatments, the things that we need the most in life cost the least, the ones that we need the least are the most expensive”
― Anubhav Srivastava, Inspirational Sayings: Get Super Motivated and Achieve Amazing Success through Inspirational Sayings!

“I read a joke somewhere about how Bollywood movies exaggerating about people getting heart attacks as a result of being humiliated was nonsense, because if that were the case, then everyone working in toxic jobs would get one every week.
Reading that “joke� actually made me pretty sad about the kind of lives many are being forced to lead.
Obviously, people will say they have no choice. Because they need to put food on the table. This is a valid reason.
But it’s not just food but also expensive clothes, gadgets, jewelery and accessories.
And they need expensive furniture in an expensive house. And then they need an expensive car outside, or maybe two. The more the better
The best part, they buy almost all of that using bank loans.
Congratulations, now you are a slave till every single one of your debts is paid off, which is probably the next 30 years. Now you just need to choose whom you prefer to make your life hell - Your toxic workplace or the "friendly" people from the collection agency when you default on the loan? What a beautiful life indeed!”
― Anubhav Srivastava, UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life

“We have been brainwashed into believing that the meaning of life is a rat race where happiness is a reward waiting at the end. And quite often the society, including our parents and other relatives are to blame for it. How are you going to be happy? When you study extremely hard and get into a great college later, you will be happy and successful.

Well, what do you do when you get into that great college and don’t seem all that happy? Well, you better work hard in college and keep your grades up so that you get your dream job and then you’ll be happy! Well, when you get your dream job and are making money but miserable you are supposed to get married because then you will finally have a “happy stable life�.

Finally even after marriage, when life is still a chore and now you are supposed to do everything for your kids, you keep wondering, hey where’s my happiness? I am still not happy, in fact I am miserable!

It is then that society tells you it was fooling you all along. It tells you “Suck it up, the meaning of life is to do what we tell you to do, not to be happy!”
― Anubhav Srivastava, UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life

“Society doesn’t accept that happiness is the key to success, to them here is the definition of success: You do what you are meant to do as a pawn in the world and make some money doing it, then die and make way for other pawns.

Now if you make an animal buy into this stupid rule, it’s understandable. What is not is how a so called higher being such as a human can ever accept that his or her fate is just to be a pawn leading a meaningless life, no matter how highly paid that pawn is. If you have the slightest ability to think consciously you will eventually realize that just doing what society asks you to do is no success at all if it deprives you of happiness. In fact, it means your life has been a total failure.”
― Anubhav Srivastava, UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life

“Most animals in the wild spend their entire lives interacting with other animals without EVER knowing what they themselves look like.

Unfortunately, we aren't too different. All our life, we play characters - the child, the student, the employee, the friend, the partner, the parent, the professional etc. We have assumed these to be our real identity because we have only been taught to interact with the world around us, but never with ourselves.

Start giving time to yourself or your entire life will go by without knowing the actual actor behind these characters.”
― Anubhav Srivastava

“How are you?
The reason you need to ask�
Is the answer.”
― Ritu Negi, Cherry Blossoms: A Haiku Poetry Book

“The irony of life is that "if you try so hard, you will be hazard and if you try a little, you will belittled.”
― Zinny Ekechukwu

“You’re becoming more and more human every day. Just lying for no damn reason.”
― Blythe Dowling-Eversly, Wifey Material

“In Absentia by Stewart Stafford

Marbled mirror's stubbled face,
Hollow grimace back at me,
Each line a verdict crease,
From a rigged jury decree.

Denial's chant, the siren's call,
Dared me to climb meeker backs,
Those perps and their victims,
The fading dust upon the tracks.

Deep scars from a traitor's blade,
Like from some coroner's skit,
Staggering down memory lane,
Déjà vu choking on a peach pit.

Then karma's trapdoor gives,
The past is not a partner sparred,
Hubris's caw now a trembling chick,
Wet rope creaks in hangman's yard.

© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“at the end of the day, we always end up in bed. so why not stay in bed all day if everyday’s end is at the end of the day, we always end up in bed. so why not stay in bed all day if everyday’s end is at the end of the dayâ€�”
― Kynna Claire