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"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation." - Graham Greene

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

- Albert Camus

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour)."

- Vladimir Nabokov

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.---- Albert Einstein

"I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."
-Captain Ahab from Moby Dick

Pain is fear leaving the body.---Jillian Michaels. I know it's a bastardized version from the US Marines, but I like hers better.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
- Matt Groening

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
- Blaise Pascal

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
- Bill Hoest

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner

There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing.
- T. E. Lawrence

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!” - Cave Johnson

oh yeah, and

"Shut up and gimme a Swiss roll." - Blitz (From Battle of Marvis)

I don't know enough about Coco Chanel to really have an opinion about her one way or the other, but I thought this was a really good quote:

I've got a PhD in Horribleness. --Dr. Horrible

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." – Crowfoot, Blackfoot Warrior

Give many thy ear, but few thy voice -- Hamlet

Is it? Is it? Oh it is, is it? -- Vicar of Dibley

Change is constant -- Me

"Weather you think you can or you think you cant you're right"

Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I'll ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day

- Liam Neeson, The Grey