Emil > Emil's Quotes

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
― Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight”
― Elvis Presley

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
― Mark Twain

“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.”
― Bill Hicks

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks

“Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?”
― Charles Fort

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
― Elvis Presley

“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
― Elvis Presley

“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
― James Clerk Maxwell

“A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.”
― Stephen King, Four Past Midnight

“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Silence: A Fable

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Винаги познаваш истината, защото като се сблъскаш или някой друг се сблъска с нея, винаги става кърваво зрелище.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.”
― Stephen King, The Body

“Belief is the enemy.”
― John A. Keel

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays og Epistler

“Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays

“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe