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“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger