Simon Lauridsen > Simon's Quotes

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

“You are always a little bit wrong”
― Hank Green

“Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved.”
― Hank Green

“Fear is a reasonable response to life.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale