Clay Owl > Clay's Quotes

“All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.”
― Kobayashi Issa

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
― Julian Fellowes

“Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window,”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”
― Bill Hicks