Albert Camus // "For years I’ve wanted to live according to everyone else’s morals. I’ve forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth...after having lived all my life in a sort of lie."
Bob Dylan // "The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer for it... There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred songs, and never be repeated... Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story."
J.K. Rowling // "I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."
Albert Einstein // "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
Romy Schneider // "You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now."
Carson McCullers // "We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange...we are homesick most for the places we have never known."
Rabindranath Tagore // "Who are you, reader, reading my poems a hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring... Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of a hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years."
Charlie Chaplin // "The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant."
Bertrand Russell (message to future generations) // "I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing that I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say. The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple... I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish."
Johnny Cash // "So I simply don’t buy the concept of Generation X as the “lost generation.” I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing… Their distractions are greater, though. There’s no more simple life with simple choices for the young."
John Steinbeck // "People like you to be something, preferably what they are."
Leonard Cohen // "We don’t want to live a frivolous life, we don’t want to live a superficial life. We want to be serious with each other, with our friends, with our work. That doesn’t necessarily mean gloomy or grim, but seriousness...is something that we are deeply hungry for, to take ourselves seriously and to be able to enjoy the nourishment of seriousness, that gravity, that weight."