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My mind's terrain has become exceedingly rough. Emotional scars are changing my internal geography faster than the mapmaker can keep pace. Wrong turns and dead ends abound, and I'm afraid someday I'll drown in a river I didn't know was there.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: D H Mondfleur
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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: David T Wolf
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon
And draw the ladder after me.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Author Unknown
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The mad are happy, the sane ignorant; those of us stuck on the sane side of madness or the mad fringe of sanity are in a purgatorial cage with locked doors on all sides.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Terri Guillemets
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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Alban Goodier
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All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Horace Walpole
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Medvedénko: "Why do you always wear black?"
Masha: "I am in mourning for my life."
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Anton Chekhov
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Maya Angelou
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Peter McArthur
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Albert Einstein
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Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: James Thurber
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This world is gradually becoming a place
Where I do not care to be any more.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: John Berryman
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Charles de Gaulle
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Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Martin H Fischer
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It's just life... wake up and smell the thorns.
Category: Curmudgeons Source: From the movie Meet Joe Black
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I am too tired to fight, but too stubborn to conform to the ways of this fucked up world. I give up.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Author Unknown
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