Quotes - Jack Mills (Tallahassee, FL) Showing 1-30 of 62

#1

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

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#2

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

803 likes

#3

“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

679 likes

#4

“It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#5

“A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

tags: dark

754 likes

#6

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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#7

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

14117 likes

#8

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

11318 likes

#9

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

7408 likes

#10

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7202 likes

#11

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

5057 likes

#12

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

105 likes

#13

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#14

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: beatitudes

107 likes

#15

“Some men are born posthumously.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

tags: fame, history

106 likes

#16

“Convictions are prisons.”
― Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ

tags: convictions, inspirational

97 likes

#17

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: belief, truth

92 likes

#18

“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humour

8652 likes

#20

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13417 likes

#21

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

22569 likes

#22

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#23

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

5269 likes

#24

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

6375 likes

#25

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

6600 likes

#26

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

6536 likes

#27

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office