Evan DiLeo > Evan's Quotes

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“People may forget what you say.
They may forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.”
― Carl Buehner

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
― Hunter S Thompson

“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
― T.S. Eliot

“The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
― Salvador Dali

“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. ”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
― Salvador Dali

“I realized then that all of the problems in my life that I thought were unsolvable were in fact solvable—except for having just jumped.”
― Ken Baldwin

“Carry the fire.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Go forth and set the world on fire.”
― St. Ignatius Loyola

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
― Carl Sagan

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
― Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

“We make our purpose.”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God