Read the news lately? It's crazy out there! Here are some more links and quotes to brighten (or darken) your day. Enjoy!
"More than three people can't decide anything. Progress doesn't come from early risers—progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." — Robert A. Heinlein
"No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting. But man does it, and it is this that constitutes the diabolical feature in his character which is so much worse than the merely animal." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first: That is the way it works." — Philip K. Dick
"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." — Aldous Huxley
"I'm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away. It's physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I've got a library that I keep the ones I really, really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself—I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'Fuck, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness." — David Bowie
"The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." — Bob Marley
"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else." — Fernando Pessoa
"We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost." — Daphne Du Maurier
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." — Kurt Vonnegut
"Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience." — John Steinbeck
"I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas." — Charles Bukowski
"All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night." — Clive Barker
"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better—and maybe not all that much better after all." — Stephen King
"The pessimist’s credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone." — Thomas Ligotti
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