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Deliver us from the Pain of Living


I danced along a coloured wind 🌬
Dangled from a rope of sand. ~ Tom Waits #lyrics

You get what anyone gets; you get a lifetime. ~ Death, Neil Gaiman Comic Sandman #Quote

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. ~ Mark Twain #Quote

Poets wish to profit or to please. ~ Horace #Quote

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Art Lover

My life is violent, but violent is life. peace ☮ is a dream, reality is a knife. ~ Ice-T, Vengeance #Lyrics

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -- it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~ John Keats #Quote

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time ⏳. ~ Charles Monroe Schulz, Peanuts (character Charlie Brown) #Quote

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~ Erich Fromm #Quote

College is breaking my spirit. Every single day, telling me things I don't know. It's making me feel stupid. ~ Marty #Quote

Feed the babies who don't have enough to eat, shoe the children with no shoes on their feet, house the people living in the street. Oh, oh, there's a solution. ~ Steve Miller Band, Fly Like An Eagle #lyrics

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phoney anniversaries? ~ W. J. Wetherby #Quote

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 #Quote

Drop your silver in my tambourine, help a poor man build a pretty dream. ~ Lemon Pipers, Green Tambourine #lyrics

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. ~ Yoko Ono #Quote

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ~ Eugene Ionesco #Quote

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically. ~ Jean Cocteau #Quote

How wild it was, to let it be. ~ Cheryl Strayed, Wild #Quote

It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying. #OneLiners

Compared to the bugs and the spiders 🕷 and flies, I am an apeman. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Apeman

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s a Broadway spotlight, for others, a lamplit desk. ~ Susan Cain #Quote

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ~ Groucho Marx #Quote

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. ~ David Bowie #Quote

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. ~ Oscar Wilde #Quote

Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~ Hugh Sidey #Quote

There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive. ~ Big Daddy Cane, Children R The Future #lyrics

In your fear, seek only peace ☮. In your fear, seek only love. ~ David Bowie, Sunday #Lyrics

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. ~ Ramsey Clark #Quote

He who laughs last laughs longest. #Proverb

I am a D.J., I am what I play. ~ David Bowie, D.J. #Quote

Birds of a feather, all the phonies and fakes, while the dealers get together, and they decide who gets the breaks. ~ Dire Straits, In The Gallery #Lyrics

No pain, no gain. #Proverb

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. ~ Robert Brault #Quote

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides. ~ Unknown #Quote

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time ⏳. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote

Any party which takes credit for the rain ☔️ must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~ Dwight Morrow #Quote

A saint is a sinner, a sinner is a saint. It's all just the cloaks we hide behind, a cartoon in the brain. ~ Live, Hero Of Love #lyrics

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. ~ Marshall McLuhan #Quote

Just give me an easy life and a peaceful death. ~ The Sundays, Goodbye #Lyrics

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. ~ Laura Swenson #Quote

If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep 🛌 till noon. ~ Irish Proverb #Quote

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. ~ John Locke #Quote

The medium is the message. ~ Marshall McLuhan #Quote


Tomorrow is a new day. #Proverb

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. ~ Chuck Palahniuk #Quote

It is not worth an intelligent man's time ⏳ to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. ~ G. H. Hardy #Quote

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace ☮ tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too. ~ Katherine Anne Porter #Quote

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life. ~ Andy Warhol #Quote

I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that were concrete, like the ocean 🌅. Something you could point to and know what it was. I think that’s why she struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it. She couldn’t hold on to it and make sure it never changed. ~ Carrie Ryan #Quote

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~ N. Smith #Quote

When I see an opportunity for humor, I grab it! After all, life is too short to be grumpy. ~ Dodinsky #Quote

Hate's the only thing we have in common. ~ The Kinks, #Lyrics Hatred


A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ~ George Bernard Shaw #Quote

Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time ⏳ and on Saturday night. ~ The Kinks, Give The People What They Want #Lyrics

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain. ~ Paulo Coelho #Quote

Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully. #OneLiners

A rebel without a clue. ~ Tom Petty, Into The Great Wide Open #Lyrics

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. ~ H. L. Mencken #Quote

Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ~ Elbert Hubbard #Quote

You can’t make bricks without straw. #Proverb

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ~ Garrison Keillor #Quote

I'll place my love beneath the stars 🌌. ~ David Bowie, As The World Falls Down #Quote

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. ~ Aldous Huxley #Quote

The darkest hour is just before the dawn. #Proverb

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe #Quote

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith #Quote

Back in the world of disposable emotion in the climate of temporary dreams. ~ Howard Jones, Everlasting Love #Lyrics




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