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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Sep 10, 2025
The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.