Someone - Quotes
There`s very little point carrying on a conversation with someone who is absolutely convinced you are wrong and bad.
Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
When someone is searching, [...] then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal.
We must always remember that we can never know what`s in someone else`s heart, but in order to function, we must guess.
The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
I used to think that`s what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.
If you love someone, you shouldn`t make them miserable. It`s a rule somewhere, or should be.
I`m angry that when people run for political office in the United States, it`s considered legitimate to grill them about their employment background, their positions on legislation, their positions on social issues, the taxes they`ve paid [...]... but it`s considered invasive and intolerant to ask if they believe in talking snakes, demonic possession, magic underwear, magic crackers that turn into the flesh of their god, an Earth that was created 6,000 years ago, or a god who put himself on Earth in human form and then sacrificed himself to himself to atone for sins that other people committed and to save humanity from the punishment he himself was planning to dole out. If someone is going to make decisions about science funding, emerging medical technology, our educational system, and so on... I think it matters if they believe any of that shit, and I bloody well want to know about it.
A philosopher is someone who says, "We know it`s possible in practice; we`re trying to work out if it`s possible in principle!"
Good art speaks for itself. That doesn’t mean you have to like it. So the next time you go to an art show, or look at anything for that matter, observe what effect it has on you and try to form your own opinion. That way you become the critic and not a mouthpiece for someone else’s opinions.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.