Meaningful Quotes and Passages from Books

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"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." - Isaac Asimov

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!"

"I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I would not change it.”

— Shakespeare, As You Like It

I have 2 quotes for today... Both Philip K. Dick

"My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression."


"There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'."
- written 50 years ago.

Words of wisdom from The Handmaid's Tale:

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”

"Don't let the little f*ckers generation gap you."

William Gibson, Neuromancer

“« Les hommes ne font jamais le mal aussi complètement et ardemment que lorsqu'ils le font par conviction religieuse. » ”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

“One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall


-“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.

— Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”

— Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

"When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins."

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." – Satan (and TwilightPrincess)

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.” – Robert Frost

When I was little I used to read the "The Berenstain Bears" books. I ended up keeping alot of them and there was a quote in one that always stuck and is still meaningful to me. "It's never too late to correct a mistake". I think it was from one called "Trouble at School".

" Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by as*holes. "

William Gibson