“But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”

— Agatha Christie

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

— George Orwell

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

— Joan Didion

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

— Charles Bukowski

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”

— Bertolt Brecht

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

— Tennessee Williams

“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”

— Jean Cocteau

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

— Johannes Kepler

“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation.”

— Albert Camus

“War is what happens when language fails.”

— Margaret Atwood