Quotelar

Usher, born Usher Raymond IV on October 14, 1978, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Rising to fame in the late 1990s with his album “My Way,” he is known for his smooth voice and versatile style spanning R&B, pop, and hip-hop. Hits like “Nice & Slow,” “You Make Me Wanna…,” and “Yeah!” featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris solidified his success. Usher has won multiple Grammy Awards and is recognized as one of the best-selling artists globally. Beyond music, he has ventured into acting, with roles in films like “She’s All That” and “In the Mix.” Usher’s enduring influence and talent have made him a respected figure in the entertainment industry.

Usher Quotes

1. “You either evolve or dissolve.”
— Usher

2. “Success is measured by personal happiness.”
— Usher

3. “The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible.”
— Usher

4. “If you don’t EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.”
— Usher

5. “Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.”
— Usher

6. “Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.”
— Usher

7. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t make them all yourself.”
— Usher

8. “You are my superstar. I’m your number one fan, give me your autograph, sign it right here on my heart. Girl, I’ll be your groupie, baby.”
— Usher

9. “There’s always that one person, That will always have your heart. That one person for me is you.”
— Usher

10. “In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we’re better. And I feel like I’m becoming more seasoned, although I don’t have my salt-and-pepper hair.”
— Usher

11. “I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she’ll care for me.”
— Usher

12. “Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey. But you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.”
— Usher

13. “The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.”
— Usher

14. “Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.”
— Usher

15. “My philosophy is I’m raising future adults, not children.”
— Usher

16. “I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they’ll go in the right direction.”
— Usher

17. “We all possess exactly what we need to be our greatest selves…”
— Usher

18. “For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that’s a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.”
— Usher

19. “The hardest thing I think I’ve ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I’m having a baby by a woman that I barely know.”
— Usher

20. “You are who you are, and in the end, If you don’t believe it then no one will.”
— Usher

21. “I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.”
— Usher

22. “It isn’t hard to be in a relationship because I’ve always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.”
— Usher

23. “I’m a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.”
— Usher

24. “You can’t fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.”
— Usher

25. “Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.”
— Usher

26. “The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Everything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. – But it takes away from the reason we do it.”
— Usher

27. “Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It’s all work and no play.”
— Usher

28. “I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It’s hard because people get angry at you, but I’ve got a life to live too.”
— Usher

29. “Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you’re with an individual who isn’t moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain’t going to work.”
— Usher

30. “How do I define who Usher is? I’m still doing it – every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I’ve done, every time that I’ve invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am.”
— Usher

31. “I wouldn’t call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you’d see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.”
— Usher

32. “It’s a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn’t feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they’re excited about it, and it’s cool.”
— Usher

33. “I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice – she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye – and my grandmother gave me condoms.”
— Usher

34. “I’ve been working so hard, I’m about to have a Mariah Carey.”
— Usher

35. “I think it’s important for us to believe in one another’s capabilities. If I didn’t have someone to believe in me, I wouldn’t be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.”
— Usher

36. “Downtime is not the name of the game.”
— Usher

37. “Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.”
— Usher

38. “Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.”
— Usher

39. “The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren’t too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.”
— Usher

40. “I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.”
— Usher

41. “I’d like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.”
— Usher

42. “It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man – a black man. – in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.”
— Usher

43. “Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you’re going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.”
— Usher

44. “The girls want to see the rips on your stomach – they like that.”
— Usher

45. “I can win those four-chair turns all day.”
— Usher

46. “I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.”
— Usher

47. “I met BSB at a benefit gig we were both doing, and they are really humble, nice guys – and very hard working.”
— Usher

U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007), an Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, diverged from traditional spiritual paths, rejecting enlightenment, gurus, and rituals. Following a transformative experience at 49, he claimed to exist in a natural state, free from psychological burdens. Unlike conventional spiritual leaders, he eschewed doctrines and encouraged individuals to question beliefs. Critiquing organized religions and the concept of self, U.G. Krishnamurti’s teachings were controversial yet drew followers who embraced his unconventional perspectives. Despite not achieving widespread recognition, his impact on those resonating with his radical philosophy remains significant. He passed away on March 22, 2007, in Vallecrosia, Italy.

U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes

1. “Don’t follow me, I’m lost.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

2. “You think when you don’t want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don’t think!”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

3. “Food, clothing and shelter – these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

4. “The fact is that we don’t want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

5. “All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

6. “You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don’t want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

7. “Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

8. “There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

9. “The plain fact is that if you don’t have a problem, you create one. If you don’t have a problem you don’t feel that you are living.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

10. “Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

11. “There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your ‘logically’ ascertained premise, which you call truth.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

12. “You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

13. “The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

14. “To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a “Natural Man”.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

15. “There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

16. “There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

17. “Nature is interested in only two things – to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

18. “If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

19. “All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, and gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

20. “If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

21. “We don’t want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

22. “Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

23. “It would be more interesting to learn from children than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

24. “A guru is one who tells you to throw away all the crutches that we have been made to believe are essential for our survival. He would ask you to walk, and he would say that if you fall, you will arise and walk.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

25. “Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

26. “We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

27. “Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

28. “Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

29. “You cannot experience the death of anybody.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

30. “Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

31. “My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

32. “Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

33. “I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

34. “The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

35. “Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

36. “I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

37. “There is nothing there – no soul – there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer – your answer; not my answer – because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

38. “Human thinking is born out of this neurological defect in the human species. Anything that is born out of human thinking is destructive. Thought is destructive. Thought is a protective mechanism. It draws frontiers around itself, and it wants to protect itself. It is for the same reason that we also draw lines on this planet and extend them as far as we can.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

39. “As long as you are not at peace with yourself, it is not possible for you to be at peace with others.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

40. “I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

41. “A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

42. “Life is simply a process of stimulus and response, and stimulus and response are one unitary movement.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

43. “The fear of extinction will probably bring us together, not ‘love’ or feeling of brotherhood.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

44. “The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

45. “Sometimes we are so involved with our activity that we lose ourselves in it, and in that sense we are living in the moment.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

46. “The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

47. “Those who are marching into the battlefield and are ready to be killed today in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of communism, are no different from those who threw themselves to the lions in the arenas. The Romans watched that fun with great joy. How are we different from them? Not a bit. We love it. To kill and to be killed is the foundation of our culture.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

48. “Sorrow is there for you as long as you think. There is actually no sorrow there to be free from. Thinking about and struggling against “sorrow” is sorrow. Since you can’t stop thinking, and thinking is sorrow, you will always suffer. There is no way out, no escape.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

49. “The body is not interested in your perceptions. It is not interested in learning anything from you or knowing anything from you. All the intelligence that is necessary for this living organism is already there. Our attempts to teach this body, or make it function differently from the way it is programmed by nature, are what are responsible for the battle that is going on. There is a battle between what is put in by culture and what is inherent there in the body.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

50. “As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

51. “You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can’t say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

52. “Nature’s laws know no reward, only punishment. The reward is only that you are in harmony with nature.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

53. “I still maintain that it is not love, compassion, humanism, or brotherly sentiments that will save mankind. No, not at all. It is the sheer terror of extinction that can save us, if anything can.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

54. “The very motivation, the drive behind our demand to understand the laws of nature is to use them for the purpose of continuing the human species at the expense of every other form of life on this planet.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

55. “I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the ‘holy business’ have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

56. “You don’t actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That’s all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

57. “I tell you, when you stop doing things out of hope and the desire for continuity, all you do along with it stops. You will stay afloat.”
— U.G. Krishnamurti

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was an American author and social reformer best known for his muckraking novel “The Jungle” (1906). Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair’s impactful work exposed the harsh conditions of workers in the Chicago meatpacking industry, leading to significant food safety reforms. A socialist, Sinclair wrote extensively on social and political issues, advocating for workers’ rights. His notable works include “The Brass Check,” addressing journalistic ethics, and “Oil!” which inspired the film “There Will Be Blood.” Sinclair ran for political office, notably for the governorship of California in 1934. Despite his impact on social reform and literature, he faced challenges and controversies throughout his career. Sinclair passed away on November 25, 1968, leaving a lasting legacy in American literature and political activism.

Upton Sinclair Quotes

1. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
— Upton Sinclair

2. “It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”
— Upton Sinclair

3. “Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
— Upton Sinclair

4. “One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.”
— Upton Sinclair

5. “You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.”
— Upton Sinclair

6. “Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.”
— Upton Sinclair

7. “American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.”
— Upton Sinclair

8. “It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.”
— Upton Sinclair

9. “I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.”
— Upton Sinclair

10. “Pessimism is a mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.”
— Upton Sinclair

11. “There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.”
— Upton Sinclair

12. “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident, I hit it in the stomach.”
— Upton Sinclair

13. “The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.”
— Upton Sinclair

14. “The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.”
— Upton Sinclair

15. “They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?”
— Upton Sinclair

16. “I say there is no modern evil which cannot be justified by these ancient texts, and there is nowhere in Christendom a clergy which cannot be persuaded to cite them at the demand of ruling classes.”
— Upton Sinclair

17. “We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.”
— Upton Sinclair

18. “Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry – that was Adolf Hitler’s technique.”
— Upton Sinclair

19. “The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.”
— Upton Sinclair

20. “All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”
— Upton Sinclair

21. “They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
— Upton Sinclair

22. “In the twilight, it was a vision of power.”
— Upton Sinclair

23. “The great packing machine ground on remorselessly, without thinking of green fields; and the men and women and children who were part of it never saw any green thing, not even a flower. Four or five miles to the east of them lay the blue waters of Lake Michigan; but for all the good it did them it might have been as far away as the Pacific Ocean. They had only Sundays, and then they were too tired to walk. They were tied to the great packing machine, and tied to it for life.”
— Upton Sinclair

24. “But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.”
— Upton Sinclair

25. “An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”
— Upton Sinclair

26. “Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.”
— Upton Sinclair

27. “Dieve – but I’m glad I’m not a hog.”
— Upton Sinclair

28. “All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.”
— Upton Sinclair

29. “They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.”
— Upton Sinclair

30. “Jurgis had come there, and thought he was going to make himself useful, and rise and become a skilled man; but he would soon find out his error – for nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule – if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave.”
— Upton Sinclair

31. “If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.”
— Upton Sinclair

32. “I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.”
— Upton Sinclair

33. “Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers; under such circumstances immorality was exactly as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it was under the system of chattel slavery. Things.”
— Upton Sinclair

34. “I find that all the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!”
— Upton Sinclair

35. “It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has its being in proud liberty because thousands are slaving for it, whose thraldom is the price of this liberty. This.”
— Upton Sinclair

36. “It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the “cooler,” and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.”
— Upton Sinclair

37. “Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair. He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a world in which nothing counted but brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did not.”
— Upton Sinclair

38. “I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.”
— Upton Sinclair

39. “Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?”
— Upton Sinclair

40. “In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.”
— Upton Sinclair

41. “He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a Populist, a Bryanite – and after thirty years of fighting, the year 1896 had served to convince him that the power of concentrated wealth could never be controlled, but could only be destroyed. He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him. Now.”
— Upton Sinclair

42. “The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.”
— Upton Sinclair

43. “The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.”
— Upton Sinclair

44. “Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.”
— Upton Sinclair

45. “There was only one earth, and the quantity of material things was limited. Of intellectual and moral things, on the other hand, there was no limit, and one could have more without another’s having less; hence “Communism in material production, anarchism in intellectual,” was the formula of modern proletarian thought. As.”
— Upton Sinclair

46. “Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
— Upton Sinclair

47. “And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy. The officials who ruled it, and got all the graft, had to be elected first; and so there were two rival sets of grafters, known as political parties, and the one got the office which bought the most votes. Now.”
— Upton Sinclair

48. “As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!”
— Upton Sinclair

49. “The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this scene must be read, or said, or sung, to music. It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little corner of the high mansions of the sky.”
— Upton Sinclair

50. “Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.”
— Upton Sinclair

51. “Study and think and improve your mind, and keep it clear of all this fog of hatred and propaganda.”
— Upton Sinclair

52. “Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenomenon, and worth developing. You will meet many who have no resources of their own, and who will try to fasten themselves upon you. You will find others eager to tell you what to do and think and be. But it is better to go apart and learn to be yourself.”
— Upton Sinclair

53. “The state might say that it had taken a year to write the book, and the author might say it had taken thirty. Goethe said that every bon mot of his had cost a purse of gold. What.”
— Upton Sinclair

54. “I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.”
— Upton Sinclair

55. “They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”
— Upton Sinclair

56. “In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water’s edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.”
— Upton Sinclair

57. “They wish to build a new and better world, and I would be glad if they could succeed, and if I saw any hope of success I would join them. I ask for their plans, and they offer me vague dreams, in which as a man of affairs, I see no practicality. Is is like the the end of Das Rheingold: there is Valhalla, very beautiful, but only a rainbow bridge on which to get to it, and while the gods ma be able to walk on a rainbow, my investors and working people cannot.”
— Upton Sinclair

58. “It was the same type of men all over the world. They tried to grab on another’s coal and steel and oil and gold; yet, the moment they were threatened by their wage slaves anywhere, they got together to fight against the common peril. Do it with the army, do it with gangsters, do it with the workers’ own leaders, buying them or seducing them with titles, honors, and applause!”
— Upton Sinclair

59. “He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago – after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms.”
— Upton Sinclair

60. “Play your music, read your books, think your own thoughts, and never let yourselves be drawn into an argument! Not an altogether satisfactory way of life, but the only one possible in times when the world is changing so fast that parents and children may be a thousand years apart in their ideas and ideals.”
— Upton Sinclair

61. “Just what,” answered the other, “would be the productive capacity of society if the present resources of science were utilized, we have no means of ascertaining; but we may be sure it would exceed anything that would sound reasonable to minds inured to the ferocious barbarities of capitalism. After.”
— Upton Sinclair

62. “What, then, was the difference between America and Moscow? The “muckraker” said it was a question of who owned the state. In America the people were supposed to own it, but most of the time the big businessmen bought it away from them. “It is privilege which corrupts politics,” was his phrase.”
— Upton Sinclair

63. “Since his life had been caught up into the current of this great stream, things which had before been the whole of life to him came to seem of relatively slight importance; his interests were elsewhere, in the world of ideas. His outward life was commonplace and uninteresting; he was just a hotel-porter, and expected to remain one while he lived; but meantime, in the realm of thought, his life was a perpetual adventure. There was so much to know – so many wonders to be discovered!”
— Upton Sinclair

64. “The eloquent senator was explaining the system of protection; an ingenious device whereby the workingman permitted the manufacturer to charge him higher prices, in order that he might receive higher wages; thus taking his money out of his pocket with one hand, and putting a part of it back with the other. To the senator this unique arrangement had somehow become identified with the higher verities of the universe. It.”
— Upton Sinclair

65. “It is not the New Inquisition which is our enemy today; it is hereditary Privilege. It is not Superstition, but Big Business which makes use of Superstition as a wolf makes use of sheep’s clothing.”
— Upton Sinclair

66. “What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they wanted from the workingman, and also that was what they wanted from the public. What the hog thought of it, and what he suffered, were not considered; and no more was it with labor, and no more with the purchaser of meat.”
— Upton Sinclair

67. “All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will.”
— Upton Sinclair

68. “The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it – and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.”
— Upton Sinclair

69. “Was it a fact that every man had something in his life which palsied his arm, and struck him helpless in the battle for social justice? When.”
— Upton Sinclair

70. “It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.”
— Upton Sinclair

71. “If you look at the people on this train, you will see that they are dressed much alike. The train itself is a standard product, and by means of it we travel from town to town selling products which are messengers of internationalism.”
— Upton Sinclair

72. “He was carried over the difficult places in spite of himself; and he went plunging away in mad career – a very Mazeppa-ride upon the wild horse Speculation.”
— Upton Sinclair

73. “If you wanted to understand a politician you mustn’t pay too much attention to his speeches, but find out who were his paymasters. A politician couldn’t rise in public life, in France any more than in America, unless he had the backing of big money, and it was in times of crisis like this that he paid his debts. X.”
— Upton Sinclair

74. “The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary – and that was the press.”
— Upton Sinclair

75. “Like all religious thinkers, he carries with his scholar’s equipment a pair of metaphysical wings, wherewith at any moment he may soar into the empyrean, out of reach of vulgar materialists, like you and me.”
— Upton Sinclair

76. “Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and right the wrongs of Versailles… and then to settle down and govern the county in the interest of those millions of oppressed “little people” for whom he spoke so eloquently.”
— Upton Sinclair

77. “Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.”
— Upton Sinclair

78. “How could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes?”
— Upton Sinclair

79. “First, that a Socialist believes in the common ownership and democratic management of the means of producing the necessities of life; and, second, that a Socialist believes that the means by which this is to be brought about is the class conscious political organization of the wage-earners. Thus far they were at one; but no farther. To.”
— Upton Sinclair

80. “What we have to do is to judge which side stands for freedom and enlightenment and which for medievalism and superstition.”
— Upton Sinclair

81. “Truly it seemed that a great people had gone mad; but it is a fact well known to alienists that you cannot convince a madman of his own condition, and only make him madder by trying.”
— Upton Sinclair

82. “Lanny, climbing the hill, carried a thought which by now had become his familiar companion: Why, oh, why did men have to make their lives so ugly? What evil spell was upon them that they wrangled and scolded, hated and feared? He.”
— Upton Sinclair

83. “He is playing a bass part upon his cello, and so the excitement is nothing to him; no matter what happens in the treble, it is his task to saw out one long-drawn and lugubrious note after another, from four o’clock in the afternoon until nearly the same hour next morning, for his third of the total income of one dollar per hour.”
— Upton Sinclair

84. “Of late years, however, since his children were growing up, he had begun to value respectability, and had had himself made a magistrate; a position for which he was admirably fitted, because of his strong conservatism and his contempt for “foreigners.”
— Upton Sinclair

85. “But it is not likely that he had reference to the kind of anguish that comes with destitution, that is so endlessly bitter and cruel, and yet so sordid and petty, so ugly, so humiliating – unredeemed by the slightest touch of dignity or even of pathos. It is a kind of anguish that poets have not commonly dealt with; its very words are not admitted into the vocabulary of poets – the details of it cannot be told in polite society at all.”
— Upton Sinclair

86. “Military men say that troops can stand twenty percent losses; more than that, they go to pieces. But we had many an outfit with only twenty percent survivors and they went on fighting.”
— Upton Sinclair

87. “What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich?”
— Upton Sinclair

88. “Don’t complain about our coffee; someday you may be old and weak yourself.”
— Upton Sinclair

89. “To think that in the midst of the last desperate agony of war, with several “Big Berthas” dropping shells into the city every twenty minutes, with food scarce and fuel unobtainable, more than three thousand men and women had sat at easels and maintained their faith that art could not be destroyed, but was and would remain the supreme achievement and goal of life! Lanny.”
— Upton Sinclair

90. “Lanny smiled to himself. His chief called himself a “liberal,” and Lanny had been trying to make up his mind just what that meant. He decided that a liberal was a high-minded gentleman who believed the world was made in his own image.”
— Upton Sinclair

91. “Life on board the Oriole exemplified the old-time saying: “Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.”
— Upton Sinclair

92. “In the beginning he had assumed that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts; but now that he had looked into their hearts, he rejected the explanation.”
— Upton Sinclair

93. “Dreadful, unspeakably wicked men the Nazi chieftains were, and Lanny was haunted by the idea that it was his duty to give up all pleasures and all other duties and try to awaken the people of Western Europe to a realization of the peril in which they stood.”
— Upton Sinclair

94. “Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every law.”
— Upton Sinclair

95. “All that men had felt and suffered had been recorded and preserved in musical sound, a heritage for those who had ears to hear and minds to understand.”
— Upton Sinclair

96. “Political slogans are like grain scattered to draw birds into a snare. Find out who’s putting up the money for a political party, and then you know what it will do.”
— Upton Sinclair

97. “All that a rich man needed to be happy was to have no heart. If he had one, then all the gifts which fortune showered upon him might turn to dust and ashes in his hands.”
— Upton Sinclair

98. “There is something in us all, he said, that is greater than ourselves, that works through us and can be used in the making of character. The central core of life is personality. To respect the personality of others is the beginning of virtue, and to enforce respect for it is the first duty of the individual toward all forms of government, all organizations and systems which men contrive to enslave and limit their fellows.”
— Upton Sinclair

Ugo Betti (1892–1953) was an Italian playwright and poet known for his tragic dramas exploring human relationships and moral dilemmas. Born in Camerino, Italy, and trained as a lawyer, Betti’s legal background influenced his works, which include “Corruzione al Palazzo di Giustizia,” “La Padrona,” and the acclaimed “Il Re muore.” His plays, such as “Il Re muore,” delve into existential and philosophical themes, examining the inner conflicts and moral choices faced by characters. Although Betti’s recognition grew posthumously, he is now regarded as a significant Italian playwright of the 20th century. His plays, translated into various languages, continue to be performed and studied, showcasing his exploration of the complexities of the human psyche and ethical considerations.

Ugo Betti Quotes

1. “To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair and that there will be wonderful surprises.”
— Ugo Betti

2. “Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.”
— Ugo Betti

3. “Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.”
— Ugo Betti

4. “When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that’s necessary for believing in it.”
— Ugo Betti

5. “The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to – look the other way.”
— Ugo Betti

6. “There is no forgiveness in nature.”
— Ugo Betti

7. “I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”
— Ugo Betti

8. “Nature is honest, we aren’t; we embalm our dead.”
— Ugo Betti

9. “Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?”
— Ugo Betti

10. “Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.”
— Ugo Betti

11. “We play make-believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously – to love each other, hate each other – but then – it isn’t true. It isn’t true, we don’t care at all!”
— Ugo Betti

12. “All of us are mad. If it weren’t for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn’t be any point in giving each person a separate name.”
— Ugo Betti

13. “There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.”
— Ugo Betti

14. “A vague uneasiness: the police. It’s like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.”
— Ugo Betti

15. “Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.”
— Ugo Betti

16. “Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.”
— Ugo Betti

17. “When I say “I,” I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.”
— Ugo Betti

18. “Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.”
— Ugo Betti

19. “It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.”
— Ugo Betti

20. “At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.”
— Ugo Betti

21. “At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.”
— Ugo Betti

22. “Killing time is the chief end of our society.”
— Ugo Betti

23. “When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.”
— Ugo Betti

24. “A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.”
— Ugo Betti

25. “The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.”
— Ugo Betti

26. “This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It’s almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.”
— Ugo Betti

27. “Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.”
— Ugo Betti

28. “We know well enough when we’re being unjust and despicable. but we don’t restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.”
— Ugo Betti

29. “We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.”
— Ugo Betti

30. “If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.”
— Ugo Betti

31. “Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world’s errors.”
— Ugo Betti

32. “Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.”
— Ugo Betti

Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet in 1694, was a leading figure of the French Enlightenment. Known for his sharp wit and satirical writings, he championed reason, religious tolerance, and freedom of speech. Voltaire critiqued established institutions, including the Catholic Church and monarchy, advocating for the separation of church and state. His influential novella, “Candide” (1759), satirized optimism and exposed the absurdities of the world. Voltaire’s prolific output encompassed plays, essays, letters, and philosophical treatises. A staunch defender of intellectual freedom, his ideas had a profound impact on Enlightenment thinkers and contributed to shaping modern Western thought. He died in 1778, leaving a lasting legacy as a critical and influential voice of his era.

Voltaire Quotes

1. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
— Voltaire

2. “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
— Voltaire

3. “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
— Voltaire

4. “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
— Voltaire

5. “Common sense is not so common.”
— Voltaire

6. “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
— Voltaire

7. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
— Voltaire

8. “Writing is the painting of the voice.”
— Voltaire

9. “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
— Voltaire

10. “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
— Voltaire

11. “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
— Voltaire

12. “Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
— Voltaire

13. “The best is the enemy of the good.”
— Voltaire

14. “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
— Voltaire

15. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”
— Voltaire

16. “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
— Voltaire

17. “My life is a struggle.”
— Voltaire

18. “Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.”
— Voltaire

19. “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
— Voltaire

20. “If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”
— Voltaire

21. “To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid – one must also be well-mannered.”
— Voltaire

22. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
— Voltaire

23. “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
— Voltaire

24. “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
— Voltaire

25. “History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
— Voltaire

26. “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
— Voltaire

27. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
— Voltaire

28. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
— Voltaire

29. “Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
— Voltaire

30. “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
— Voltaire

31. “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
— Voltaire

32. “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
— Voltaire

33. “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.”
— Voltaire

34. “May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.”
— Voltaire

35. “Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.”
— Voltaire

36. “Paradise is where I am.”
— Voltaire

37. “When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
— Voltaire

38. “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.”
— Voltaire

39. “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
— Voltaire

40. “Dare to think for yourself.”
— Voltaire

41. “Prejudice is opinion without judgement.”
— Voltaire

42. “The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.”
— Voltaire

43. “Men argue. Nature acts.”
— Voltaire

44. “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
— Voltaire

45. “Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
— Voltaire

46. “A witty saying proves nothing.”
— Voltaire

47. “Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”
— Voltaire

48. “What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on…”
— Voltaire

49. “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
— Voltaire

50. “The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
— Voltaire

51. “The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.”
— Voltaire

52. “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
— Voltaire

53. “Let us cultivate our garden.”
— Voltaire

54. “God created woman to tame man.”
— Voltaire

55. “Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion.”
— Voltaire

56. “Life is a shipwreck but we must remember to sing in the lifeboats.”
— Voltaire

57. “Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
— Voltaire

58. “Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
— Voltaire

59. “Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
— Voltaire

60. “We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”
— Voltaire

61. “I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”
— Voltaire

62. “All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”
— Voltaire

63. “It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
— Voltaire

64. “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
— Voltaire

65. “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
— Voltaire

66. “We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”
— Voltaire

67. “One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.”
— Voltaire

68. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”
— Voltaire

69. “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
— Voltaire

70. “To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.”
— Voltaire

71. “I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.”
— Voltaire

72. “Tears are the silent language of grief.”
— Voltaire

73. “We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.”
— Voltaire

74. “The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.”
— Voltaire

75. “We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.”
— Voltaire

76. “Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.”
— Voltaire

77. “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
— Voltaire

78. “There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.”
— Voltaire

79. “It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
— Voltaire

80. “If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”
— Voltaire

81. “Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.”
— Voltaire

82. “History is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
— Voltaire

83. “A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people’s attention.”
— Voltaire

84. “Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.”
— Voltaire

85. “The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
— Voltaire

86. “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
— Voltaire

87. “Constant happiness is the philosopher’s stone of the soul.”
— Voltaire

88. “A long dispute means both parties are wrong.”
— Voltaire

89. “Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.”
— Voltaire

90. “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
— Voltaire

91. “History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”
— Voltaire

92. “History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.”
— Voltaire

93. “Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race…”
— Voltaire

94. “If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
— Voltaire

95. “It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.”
— Voltaire

96. “The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.”
— Voltaire

97. “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
— Voltaire

98. “Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”
— Voltaire

99. “Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.”
— Voltaire

100. “I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc…”
— Voltaire

101. “The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”
— Voltaire

102. “We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.”
— Voltaire

103. “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
— Voltaire

104. “Love truth, but pardon error.”
— Voltaire

105. “Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.”
— Voltaire

106. “Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”
— Voltaire

107. “The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.”
— Voltaire

108. “Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.”
— Voltaire

109. “God created sex. Priests created marriage.”
— Voltaire

110. “You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.”
— Voltaire

111. “In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.”
— Voltaire

112. “Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.”
— Voltaire

113. “Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”
— Voltaire

114. “To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”
— Voltaire

115. “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”
— Voltaire

116. “Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”
— Voltaire

117. “It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
— Voltaire

118. “Changing a habit is hard work. But it’s harder to find work that would be more fulfilling.”
— Voltaire

119. “Virtuous men alone possess friends.”
— Voltaire

120. “There can be no happiness without good health.”
— Voltaire

121. “Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”
— Voltaire

122. “He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.”
— Voltaire

123. “The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
— Voltaire

124. “The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.”
— Voltaire

125. “He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.”
— Voltaire

126. “History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”
— Voltaire

127. “There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.”
— Voltaire

128. “Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.”
— Voltaire

129. “An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
— Voltaire

130. “The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.”
— Voltaire

131. “Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.”
— Voltaire

132. “The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it until I die.”
— Voltaire

133. “Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.”
— Voltaire

134. “Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.”
— Voltaire

135. “Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
— Voltaire

136. “Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.”
— Voltaire

137. “Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.”
— Voltaire

138. “Wine is the divine juice of September.”
— Voltaire

139. “Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.”
— Voltaire

140. “Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.”
— Voltaire

141. “All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.”
— Voltaire

142. “Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.”
— Voltaire

143. “Clever tyrants are never punished.”
— Voltaire

144. “It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
— Voltaire

145. “The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
— Voltaire

146. “Nature has always had more force than education.”
— Voltaire

147. “You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.”
— Voltaire

148. “I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person.”
— Voltaire

149. “Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.”
— Voltaire

150. “He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.”
— Voltaire

151. “It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.”
— Voltaire

152. “When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
— Voltaire

153. “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
— Voltaire

154. “Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”
— Voltaire

155. “The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.”
— Voltaire

156. “Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
— Voltaire

157. “Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
— Voltaire

158. “Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”
— Voltaire

159. “One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.”
— Voltaire

160. “The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.”
— Voltaire

161. “Time is man’s most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.”
— Voltaire

162. “I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.”
— Voltaire

163. “Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn’t happened.”
— Voltaire

164. “To hold a pen is to be at war.”
— Voltaire

165. “Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
— Voltaire

166. “Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.”
— Voltaire

167. “Historians are gossips who tease the dead.”
— Voltaire

168. “Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
— Voltaire

169. “If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
— Voltaire

170. “Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.”
— Voltaire

171. “It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.”
— Voltaire

172. “To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!”
— Voltaire

173. “Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.”
— Voltaire

174. “A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.”
— Voltaire

175. “I envy animals for two things – their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.”
— Voltaire

176. “Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
— Voltaire

177. “In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.”
— Voltaire

178. “Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
— Voltaire

179. “History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.”
— Voltaire

180. “The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”
— Voltaire

181. “Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.”
— Voltaire

182. “Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
— Voltaire

183. “The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.”
— Voltaire

184. “Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”
— Voltaire

185. “The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”
— Voltaire

186. “The man who says to me, “Believe as I do, or God will damn you,” will presently say, “Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you.””
— Voltaire

187. “Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.”
— Voltaire

188. “Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.”
— Voltaire

189. “History is the study of the world’s crime.”
— Voltaire

190. “Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!”
— Voltaire

191. “This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
— Voltaire

192. “The more you know, the less sure you are.”
— Voltaire

193. “Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.”
— Voltaire

194. “By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”
— Voltaire

195. “What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”
— Voltaire

196. “Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.”
— Voltaire

197. “It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
— Voltaire

198. “Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.”
— Voltaire

199. “The way to become boring is to say everything.”
— Voltaire

200. “We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.”
— Voltaire

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a prominent French writer during the 19th century, contributing significantly to the Romantic movement. Famous for works such as “Les Misérables,” exploring themes of justice and redemption in post-revolutionary France, and “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” a tragic tale set in medieval Paris, Hugo’s literary impact is enduring. Beyond his literary achievements, Hugo was politically active, serving in the National Assembly and Senate, advocating for social justice. His early work “Cromwell” marked his entry into the literary scene. Victor Hugo passed away in 1885, leaving a lasting legacy in both literature and activism. His writings remain influential, adapted into various forms and continuing to be studied for their exploration of human nature and societal issues.

Victor Hugo Quotes

1. “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
— Victor Hugo

2. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo

3. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
— Victor Hugo

4. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”
— Victor Hugo

5. “The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
— Victor Hugo

6. “To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live.”
— Victor Hugo

7. “Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.”
— Victor Hugo

8. “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
— Victor Hugo

9. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
— Victor Hugo

10. “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
— Victor Hugo

11. “People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
— Victor Hugo

12. “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
— Victor Hugo

13. “Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”
— Victor Hugo

14. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
— Victor Hugo

15. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
— Victor Hugo

16. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
— Victor Hugo

17. “Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”
— Victor Hugo

18. “To love another person is to see the face of God.”
— Victor Hugo

19. “Those who do not weep, do not see.”
— Victor Hugo

20. “Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
— Victor Hugo

21. “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
— Victor Hugo

22. “Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. ”
— Victor Hugo

23. “Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
— Victor Hugo

24. “Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth, There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo

25. “Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.”
— Victor Hugo

26. “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
— Victor Hugo

27. “To love beauty is to see light.”
— Victor Hugo

28. “A writer is a world trapped in a person.”
— Victor Hugo

29. “Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.”
— Victor Hugo

30. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
— Victor Hugo

31. “Conscience is God present in man.”
— Victor Hugo

32. “All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
— Victor Hugo

33. “Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men.”
— Victor Hugo

34. “Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”
— Victor Hugo

35. “I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”
— Victor Hugo

36. “If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!”
— Victor Hugo

37. “When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”
— Victor Hugo

38. “Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
— Victor Hugo

39. “Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”
— Victor Hugo

40. “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
— Victor Hugo

41. “Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”
— Victor Hugo

42. “What makes night within us may leave stars.”
— Victor Hugo

43. “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
— Victor Hugo

44. “Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
— Victor Hugo

45. “Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
— Victor Hugo

46. “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.”
— Victor Hugo

47. “It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
— Victor Hugo

48. “Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”
— Victor Hugo

49. “God knows better than we do what we need.”
— Victor Hugo

50. “There is in every village a torch – the teacher; and an extinguisher – the priest.”
— Victor Hugo

51. “To contemplate is to look at shadows.”
— Victor Hugo

52. “I’m not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.”
— Victor Hugo

53. “Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
— Victor Hugo

54. “I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.”
— Victor Hugo

55. “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
— Victor Hugo

56. “The malicious have a dark happiness.”
— Victor Hugo

57. “When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”
— Victor Hugo

58. “Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
— Victor Hugo

59. “God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.”
— Victor Hugo

60. “The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.”
— Victor Hugo

61. “The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.”
— Victor Hugo

62. “You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.”
— Victor Hugo

63. “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love is to live by it.”
— Victor Hugo

64. “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
— Victor Hugo

65. “The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.”
— Victor Hugo

66. “Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
— Victor Hugo

67. “When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
— Victor Hugo

68. “Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.”
— Victor Hugo

69. “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”
— Victor Hugo

70. “To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!”
— Victor Hugo

71. “There are no weeds and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”
— Victor Hugo

72. “Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.”
— Victor Hugo

73. “If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”
— Victor Hugo

74. “To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.”
— Victor Hugo

75. “Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was the darkness that produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.”
— Victor Hugo

76. “Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.”
— Victor Hugo

77. “There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.”
— Victor Hugo

78. “The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other’s qualities.”
— Victor Hugo

79. “If you don’t build castles in the air you won’t build anything on the ground.”
— Victor Hugo

80. “Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.”
— Victor Hugo

81. “Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment’s glance.”
— Victor Hugo

82. “The sewer is the conscience of the city.”
— Victor Hugo

83. “The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.”
— Victor Hugo

84. “Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.”
— Victor Hugo

85. “He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the busiest life.”
— Victor Hugo

86. “Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.”
— Victor Hugo

87. “Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.”
— Victor Hugo

88. “When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”
— Victor Hugo

89. “I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
— Victor Hugo

90. “Animals run no risk of going to hell. They are already there.”
— Victor Hugo

91. “Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
— Victor Hugo

92. “So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.”
— Victor Hugo

93. “Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”
— Victor Hugo

94. “He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.”
— Victor Hugo

95. “A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
— Victor Hugo

96. “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
— Victor Hugo

97. “The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
— Victor Hugo

98. “Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”
— Victor Hugo

99. “Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
— Victor Hugo

100. “Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”
— Victor Hugo

101. “Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”
— Victor Hugo

102. “Religion, Society, and Nature – these are the three struggles of man.”
— Victor Hugo

103. “Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
— Victor Hugo

104. “Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
— Victor Hugo

105. “Science says the first word on everything and the last word on nothing.”
— Victor Hugo

106. “Ce n’est rien de mourir, C’est affreux de ne pas vivre.”
— Victor Hugo

107. “If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights.”
— Victor Hugo

108. “A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.”
— Victor Hugo

109. “Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?”
— Victor Hugo

110. “All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.”
— Victor Hugo

111. “Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.”
— Victor Hugo

112. “If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it’s a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.”
— Victor Hugo

113. “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.”
— Victor Hugo

114. “Toleration is the best religion.”
— Victor Hugo

115. “What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
— Victor Hugo

116. “Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
— Victor Hugo

117. “My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”
— Victor Hugo

118. “He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.”
— Victor Hugo

119. “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”
— Victor Hugo

120. “We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.”
— Victor Hugo

121. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
— Victor Hugo

122. “Taste is the common sense of genius.”
— Victor Hugo

123. “Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.”
— Victor Hugo

124. “Inspiration and genius -one and the same.”
— Victor Hugo

125. “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
— Victor Hugo

126. “Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”
— Victor Hugo

127. “Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?”
— Victor Hugo

128. “What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
— Victor Hugo

129. “Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.”
— Victor Hugo

130. “A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.”
— Victor Hugo

131. “God made only water, but man made wine.”
— Victor Hugo

132. “Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.”
— Victor Hugo

133. “Love, there is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.”
— Victor Hugo

134. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
— Victor Hugo

135. “If you look in the eyes of the young, you see the flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.”
— Victor Hugo

136. “Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.”
— Victor Hugo

137. “The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.”
— Victor Hugo

138. “Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
— Victor Hugo

139. “Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
— Victor Hugo

140. “Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
— Victor Hugo

141. “Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.”
— Victor Hugo

142. “What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
— Victor Hugo

143. “The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”
— Victor Hugo

144. “Love is reducing the universe to one being.”
— Victor Hugo

145. “I think, therefore I doubt.”
— Victor Hugo

146. “Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”
— Victor Hugo

147. “Another story must begin!”
— Victor Hugo

148. “God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.”
— Victor Hugo

149. “When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.”
— Victor Hugo

150. “The clouds, – the only birds that never sleep.”
— Victor Hugo

151. “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
— Victor Hugo

152. “Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.”
— Victor Hugo

153. “The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”
— Victor Hugo

154. “Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”
— Victor Hugo

155. “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again, and great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves, and even loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo

156. “As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
— Victor Hugo

157. “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
— Victor Hugo

158. “For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”
— Victor Hugo

159. “When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don’t see that?”
— Victor Hugo

160. “Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
— Victor Hugo

161. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
— Victor Hugo

162. “To divinize is human, to humanize is divine.”
— Victor Hugo

163. “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
— Victor Hugo

164. “At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.”
— Victor Hugo

165. “Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
— Victor Hugo

166. “The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
— Victor Hugo

167. “There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.”
— Victor Hugo

168. “Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.”
— Victor Hugo

169. “God is behind everything, but everything hides God.”
— Victor Hugo

170. “La vie n’est qu’une longue perte de tout ce qu’on aime.”
— Victor Hugo

171. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”
— Victor Hugo

172. “A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.”
— Victor Hugo

173. “Morality is truth in full bloom.”
— Victor Hugo

174. “The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
— Victor Hugo

175. “One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”
— Victor Hugo

176. “The mountains, the forest, and the sea render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
— Victor Hugo

177. “It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.”
— Victor Hugo

178. “Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
— Victor Hugo

179. “She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.”
— Victor Hugo

180. “You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.”
— Victor Hugo

181. “Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.”
— Victor Hugo

182. “A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.”
— Victor Hugo

183. “If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”
— Victor Hugo

184. “The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.”
— Victor Hugo

185. “Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.”
— Victor Hugo

186. “First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.”
— Victor Hugo

187. “Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”
— Victor Hugo

188. “Gutenberg’s invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution.”
— Victor Hugo

189. “Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.”
— Victor Hugo

190. “Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”
— Victor Hugo

191. “It is man’s consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
— Victor Hugo

192. “The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.”
— Victor Hugo

193. “Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.”
— Victor Hugo

194. “Those who live are those who fight.”
— Victor Hugo

195. “At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.”
— Victor Hugo

196. “It is by suffering that human beings become angels.”
— Victor Hugo

197. “I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. – Claude Frollo.”
— Victor Hugo

198. “One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”
— Victor Hugo

199. “She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.”
— Victor Hugo

200. “We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.”
— Victor Hugo

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) was a renowned American football coach, best known for his tenure with the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s. Lombardi led the Packers to five NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls, establishing a legacy of success. His coaching style was characterized by discipline, hard work, and a commitment to excellence, encapsulated in his famous quote, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” The Super Bowl trophy is named in his honor, emphasizing his lasting impact on the sport. Lombardi’s coaching principles, motivational techniques, and emphasis on teamwork continue to influence the football world. Despite his early departure from coaching due to cancer, his name remains synonymous with achievement and leadership in American football history.

Vince Lombardi Quotes

1. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
— Vince Lombardi

2. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
— Vince Lombardi

3. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
— Vince Lombardi

4. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
— Vince Lombardi

5. “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”
— Vince Lombardi

6. “Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
— Vince Lombardi

7. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
— Vince Lombardi

8. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
— Vince Lombardi

9. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”
— Vince Lombardi

10. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. ”
— Vince Lombardi

11. “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
— Vince Lombardi

12. “Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything.”
— Vince Lombardi

13. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
— Vince Lombardi

14. “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
— Vince Lombardi

15. “Everyone Has The Will To Win But Very Few Have The Will To Prepare To Win.”
— Vince Lombardi

16. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”
— Vince Lombardi

17. “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
— Vince Lombardi

18. “Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.”
— Vince Lombardi

19. “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
— Vince Lombardi

20. “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
— Vince Lombardi

21. “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”
— Vince Lombardi

22. “If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.”
— Vince Lombardi

23. “The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.”
— Vince Lombardi

24. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
— Vince Lombardi

25. “It’s not whether you got knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”
— Vince Lombardi

26. “Praise in public; criticize in private.”
— Vince Lombardi

27. “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”
— Vince Lombardi

28. “We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.”
— Vince Lombardi

29. “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
— Vince Lombardi

30. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.”
— Vince Lombardi

31. “In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
— Vince Lombardi

32. “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
— Vince Lombardi

33. “Leaders are not born, they’re made.”
— Vince Lombardi

34. “Mental toughness is essential to success.”
— Vince Lombardi

35. “Hard work is the price we must pay for success.”
— Vince Lombardi

36. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.”
— Vince Lombardi

37. “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ”
— Vince Lombardi

38. “You’ve got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
— Vince Lombardi

39. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
— Vince Lombardi

40. “Success demands singleness of purpose.”
— Vince Lombardi

41. “You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.”
— Vince Lombardi

42. “There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”
— Vince Lombardi

43. “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
— Vince Lombardi

44. “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!”
— Vince Lombardi

45. “The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”
— Vince Lombardi

46. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
— Vince Lombardi

47. “Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.”
— Vince Lombardi

48. “Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”
— Vince Lombardi

49. “Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.”
— Vince Lombardi

50. “There’s no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.”
— Vince Lombardi

51. “I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.”
— Vince Lombardi

52. “Inches make champions.”
— Vince Lombardi

53. “If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”
— Vince Lombardi

54. “Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”
— Vince Lombardi

55. “Winning is not the most important thing; it’s everything.”
— Vince Lombardi

56. “The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.”
— Vince Lombardi

57. “If you don’t think you’re a winner, you don’t belong here.”
— Vince Lombardi

58. “Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”
— Vince Lombardi

59. “Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”
— Vince Lombardi

60. “Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.”
— Vince Lombardi

61. “It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.”
— Vince Lombardi

62. “Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.”
— Vince Lombardi

63. “The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.”
— Vince Lombardi

64. “Leaders are made, they are not born.”
— Vince Lombardi

65. “Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”
— Vince Lombardi

66. “You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.”
— Vince Lombardi

67. “There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.”
— Vince Lombardi

68. “Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.”
— Vince Lombardi

69. “Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.”
— Vince Lombardi

70. “Gentleman, this is a football.”
— Vince Lombardi

71. “When you’re tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, “I’m too tired; I’m bushed; I can’t do this; I’ll loaf.” Then you’re a coward.”
— Vince Lombardi

72. “Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.”
— Vince Lombardi

73. “Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.”
— Vince Lombardi

74. “Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?”
— Vince Lombardi

75. “The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
— Vince Lombardi

76. “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.”
— Vince Lombardi

77. “You defeat defeatism with confidence.”
— Vince Lombardi

78. “Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.”
— Vince Lombardi

79. “I don’t build character. I eliminate the people who don’t have it.”
— Vince Lombardi

80. “Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.”
— Vince Lombardi

81. “Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.”
— Vince Lombardi

82. “The successful man is himself. To be successful, you’ve got to be honest with yourself.”
— Vince Lombardi

83. “Live as if you were living already for the second time.”
— Vince Lombardi

84. “Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.”
— Vince Lombardi

85. “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.”
— Vince Lombardi

86. “I think you’ve got to pay the price for anything that’s worthwhile, and success is paying the price. You’ve got to pay the price to win, you’ve got to pay the price to stay on top, and you’ve got to pay the price to get there.”
— Vince Lombardi

87. “Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.”
— Vince Lombardi

88. “Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.”
— Vince Lombardi

89. “Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.”
— Vince Lombardi

90. “If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”
— Vince Lombardi

91. “Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”
— Vince Lombardi

92. “It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.”
— Vince Lombardi

93. “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”
— Vince Lombardi

94. “It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”
— Vince Lombardi

95. “Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.”
— Vince Lombardi

96. “To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you’re doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.”
— Vince Lombardi

97. “There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”
— Vince Lombardi

98. “People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
— Vince Lombardi

99. “Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”
— Vince Lombardi

100. “Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.”
— Vince Lombardi

Vince Vaughn, born on March 28, 1970, in Minneapolis, is an American actor, comedian, and producer. Rising to fame in the 1990s, he co-wrote and starred in the influential film “Swingers” (1996). Vaughn gained further recognition with roles in “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997) and comedies like “Old School” (2003) and “Wedding Crashers” (2005), showcasing his fast-talking, sarcastic humor. He has also ventured into dramatic roles, notably in “Into the Wild” (2007). Vaughn’s career spans a range of genres, including the blockbuster “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” (2004) and the romantic comedy-drama “The Break-Up” (2006). Known for his on-screen chemistry with Owen Wilson, the two reunited in “The Internship” (2013). Beyond acting, Vaughn has contributed as a producer on various projects, showcasing versatility in his entertainment career.

Vince Vaughn Quotes

1. “Relationships are a two-way street. Not a highway and a bike path.”
— Vince Vaughn

2. “I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don’t have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.”
— Vince Vaughn

3. “I’m not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!”
— Vince Vaughn

4. “Please don’t take a turn to negative town.”
— Vince Vaughn

5. “Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent.”
— Vince Vaughn

6. “There’s nothing wrong with letting the girls know that you’re money and that you want to party.”
— Vince Vaughn

7. “I’m not a big gadget guy. When I write, I’ll do the whole thing by hand, and then I’ll put it into the computer.”
— Vince Vaughn

8. “The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.”
— Vince Vaughn

9. “For me, I love California. I feel like it’s my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn’t have anywhere else.”
— Vince Vaughn

10. “Well, Columbus wasn’t looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.”
— Vince Vaughn

11. “I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup! I love maple syrup. I love maple syrup on pancakes. I love it on pizza. And I take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair when I’ve had a rough week. What do you think holds it up, slick?”
— Vince Vaughn

12. “Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.”
— Vince Vaughn

13. “Craziest thing I ever did for love? It’s all crazy. None of it makes any sense, does it, when you’re in love with someone. It doesn’t make any logical sense. I guess that’s why they call it being in love.”
— Vince Vaughn

14. “I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I’d have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn’t see them.”
— Vince Vaughn

15. “I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it’s always really dimensionalised.”
— Vince Vaughn

16. “To err is human, but to forgive, well that’s right on.”
— Vince Vaughn

17. “I’ve been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don’t like them, I’ll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.”
— Vince Vaughn

18. “Whenever you’re scared of something, don’t let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.”
— Vince Vaughn

19. “I don’t like dates. If you meet someone that you like then meet them out somewhere. That’s good because that’s comfortable. I don’t like the feeling of going to pick someone up that I don’t know that well at their house and then take them to kind of a formal restaurant.”
— Vince Vaughn

20. “It’s really nice that the truth can finally come out.”
— Vince Vaughn

21. “My dad was a big card player.”
— Vince Vaughn

22. “You don’t worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.”
— Vince Vaughn

23. “It’s well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.”
— Vince Vaughn

24. “I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.”
— Vince Vaughn

25. “You’ll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.”
— Vince Vaughn

26. “I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.”
— Vince Vaughn

27. “Any guy hates Valentine’s Day. Even if you’re in love, you can’t win on Valentine’s Day. If you’re married, you can’t win on Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.”
— Vince Vaughn

28. “The last book I read was the book I’ve been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.”
— Vince Vaughn

29. “Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.”
— Vince Vaughn

30. “I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.”
— Vince Vaughn

31. “I’m a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.”
— Vince Vaughn

32. “I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn’t sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.”
— Vince Vaughn

33. “When you’re younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.”
— Vince Vaughn

34. “I didn’t own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.”
— Vince Vaughn

35. “My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy – not that there’s not room for both or one isn’t enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.”
— Vince Vaughn

36. “You don’t feel honest on a date, I guess. You don’t really get to learn about anyone. You’re kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it’s just not a great time for me.”
— Vince Vaughn

37. “We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.”
— Vince Vaughn

38. “I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please write this down. If you have the opportunity to star in a movie, do it. Seriously, I find it’s a lot easier to meet girls.”
— Vince Vaughn

39. “We are gonna have tons and tons of opportunities to meet gorgeous ladies that get so aroused by the thought of marriage that they’ll throw their inhibitions to the wind.”
— Vince Vaughn

40. “I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.”
— Vince Vaughn

41. “It’s nice when people are passionate about something, and it’s always better when they let the subject tell the story, more so then when you can tell people are trying to get their own philosophy into it.”
— Vince Vaughn

42. “All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you’re playing.”
— Vince Vaughn

43. “As an artist, I can’t be responsible for how people interpret material.”
— Vince Vaughn

44. “I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they’re going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.”
— Vince Vaughn

45. “I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don’t always want to do the same tone over and over again.”
— Vince Vaughn

46. “The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn’t expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that’s honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.”
— Vince Vaughn

47. “When you’re acting you always want to come across as if you’re not acting. For me, my take is always to have it feel like you’re watching someone on film and that comes with a lot of preparation time.”
— Vince Vaughn

48. “I’m romantic to some degree, if I really like somebody. I’m more romantic if there’s someone that I like than I am a romantic just for romantics sake.”
— Vince Vaughn

49. “I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there’s so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.”
— Vince Vaughn

50. “Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they’d be more open to the fact that there’s more than one path to the waterfall.”
— Vince Vaughn

51. “I’m a horrible golfer.”
— Vince Vaughn

52. “I’ve always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.”
— Vince Vaughn

53. “I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it’s all make-believe.”
— Vince Vaughn

54. “I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it’s going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.”
— Vince Vaughn

55. “It’s grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you’re funny. It’s soul-destroying when they don’t laugh.”
— Vince Vaughn

56. “If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person’s house for a week, it’s considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it’s perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.”
— Vince Vaughn

57. “If you’ve been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.”
— Vince Vaughn

58. “It’s great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.”
— Vince Vaughn

59. “I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It’s what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.”
— Vince Vaughn

60. “Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it’s not my thing.”
— Vince Vaughn

61. “As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You’re not going to have all the experiences, but you draw on the things that you know. So I think you definitely use the things that you’re familiar with to your advantage.”
— Vince Vaughn

62. “To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.”
— Vince Vaughn

63. “My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.”
— Vince Vaughn

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), an influential English modernist writer, was born into an intellectual family and became a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group. Renowned for her innovative narrative techniques, Woolf’s works, such as “Mrs. Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse,” delved into the inner thoughts and emotions of characters, employing stream-of-consciousness writing. Her notable essay, “A Room of One’s Own,” examined the challenges faced by women writers. Despite her literary success, Woolf battled mental health issues throughout her life and tragically took her own life in 1941. Despite her relatively short life, her contributions to literature, marked by introspective exploration and modernist style, continue to be celebrated and studied today.

Virginia Woolf Quotes

1. “I am rooted, but I flow.”
— Virginia Woolf

2. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf

3. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf

4. “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
— Virginia Woolf

5. “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
— Virginia Woolf

6. “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
— Virginia Woolf

7. “Growing up is losing some illusions, to acquire others.”
— Virginia Woolf

8. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
— Virginia Woolf

9. “Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
— Virginia Woolf

10. “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
— Virginia Woolf

11. “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”
— Virginia Woolf

12. “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
— Virginia Woolf

13. “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
— Virginia Woolf

14. “Thinking is my fighting.”
— Virginia Woolf

15. “A light here required a shadow there.”
— Virginia Woolf

16. “Writing is like sex. First, you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
— Virginia Woolf

17. “I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.”
— Virginia Woolf

18. “It’s my choice, to choose how to live my life.”
— Virginia Woolf

19. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
— Virginia Woolf

20. “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
— Virginia Woolf

21. “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
— Virginia Woolf

22. “Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.”
— Virginia Woolf

23. “Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
— Virginia Woolf

24. “Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
— Virginia Woolf

25. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
— Virginia Woolf

26. “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf

27. “My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
— Virginia Woolf

28. “Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.”
— Virginia Woolf

29. “I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
— Virginia Woolf

30. “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
— Virginia Woolf

31. “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
— Virginia Woolf

32. “Language is wine upon the lips.”
— Virginia Woolf

33. “The way to write well is to live intensely.”
— Virginia Woolf

34. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
— Virginia Woolf

35. “Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”
— Virginia Woolf

36. “To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
— Virginia Woolf

37. “Without self-awareness we are as babies in the cradles.”
— Virginia Woolf

38. “My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?”
— Virginia Woolf

39. “I’m terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”
— Virginia Woolf

40. “Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One’s Mind about Another Person.”
— Virginia Woolf

41. “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
— Virginia Woolf

42. “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.”
— Virginia Woolf

43. “A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
— Virginia Woolf

44. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
— Virginia Woolf

45. “Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
— Virginia Woolf

46. “People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.”
— Virginia Woolf

47. “Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.”
— Virginia Woolf

48. “I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
— Virginia Woolf

49. “The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”
— Virginia Woolf

50. “Fear no more, says the heart…”
— Virginia Woolf

51. “Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
— Virginia Woolf

52. “They can because they think they can.”
— Virginia Woolf

53. “Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.”
— Virginia Woolf

54. “Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.”
— Virginia Woolf

55. “In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.”
— Virginia Woolf

56. “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
— Virginia Woolf

57. “I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
— Virginia Woolf

58. “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
— Virginia Woolf

59. “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
— Virginia Woolf

60. “A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.”
— Virginia Woolf

61. “Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”
— Virginia Woolf

62. “The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.”
— Virginia Woolf

63. “I will cut adrift – I will sit on pavements and drink coffee – I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim – this fine October.”
— Virginia Woolf

64. “She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.”
— Virginia Woolf

65. “Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
— Virginia Woolf

66. “Semua orang ingin hidup bahagia. Kadang-kadang kita sendiri yang mempersulit keadaan untuk menjadi bahagia.”
— Virginia Woolf

67. “Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.”
— Virginia Woolf

68. “Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
— Virginia Woolf

69. “Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.”
— Virginia Woolf

70. “I will not be “famous,” or “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
— Virginia Woolf

71. “Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it’s place?”
— Virginia Woolf

72. “Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, let’s fall.”
— Virginia Woolf

73. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”
— Virginia Woolf

74. “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
— Virginia Woolf

75. “One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one’s words.”
— Virginia Woolf

76. “The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”
— Virginia Woolf

77. “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
— Virginia Woolf

78. “There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”
— Virginia Woolf

79. “Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
— Virginia Woolf

80. “What a comfort is friendship in this world.”
— Virginia Woolf

81. “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
— Virginia Woolf

82. “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
— Virginia Woolf

83. “To be nothing – is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?”
— Virginia Woolf

84. “I like to have space to spread my mind out in.”
— Virginia Woolf

85. “I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”
— Virginia Woolf

86. “I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”
— Virginia Woolf

87. “But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.”
— Virginia Woolf

88. “These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.”
— Virginia Woolf

89. “The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf

90. “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
— Virginia Woolf

91. “Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.”
— Virginia Woolf

92. “The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.”
— Virginia Woolf

93. “It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
— Virginia Woolf

94. “Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.”
— Virginia Woolf

95. “We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
— Virginia Woolf

96. “Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself forever and ever and ever alone.”
— Virginia Woolf

97. “I will go down with my colors flying.”
— Virginia Woolf

98. “Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
— Virginia Woolf

99. “It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.”
— Virginia Woolf

100. “If you are losing your leisure, look out! – It may be you are losing your soul.”
— Virginia Woolf

101. “Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”
— Virginia Woolf

102. “To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
— Virginia Woolf

103. “They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travelers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.”
— Virginia Woolf

104. “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”
— Virginia Woolf

105. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
— Virginia Woolf

106. “First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”
— Virginia Woolf

107. “But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.”
— Virginia Woolf

108. “I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.”
— Virginia Woolf

109. “I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
— Virginia Woolf

110. “How remorseless life is!”
— Virginia Woolf

111. “In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.”
— Virginia Woolf

112. “Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.”
— Virginia Woolf

113. “What a lark! What a plunge!”
— Virginia Woolf

114. “Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”
— Virginia Woolf

115. “Lord, how tired one gets of one’s own writing.”
— Virginia Woolf

116. “How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
— Virginia Woolf

117. “The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”
— Virginia Woolf

118. “Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.”
— Virginia Woolf

119. “Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava, I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.”
— Virginia Woolf

120. “Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.”
— Virginia Woolf

121. “Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
— Virginia Woolf

122. “But I don’t think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.”
— Virginia Woolf

123. “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
— Virginia Woolf

124. “For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.”
— Virginia Woolf

125. “Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
— Virginia Woolf

126. “We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
— Virginia Woolf

127. “For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”
— Virginia Woolf

128. “My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.”
— Virginia Woolf

129. “There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”
— Virginia Woolf

130. “It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
— Virginia Woolf

131. “The artist after all is a solitary being.”
— Virginia Woolf

132. “The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.”
— Virginia Woolf

133. “The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.”
— Virginia Woolf

134. “I feel certain that I’m going mad again, I feel we can’t go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices.”
— Virginia Woolf

135. “Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
— Virginia Woolf

136. “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”
— Virginia Woolf

137. “The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
— Virginia Woolf

138. “War is not women’s history.”
— Virginia Woolf

139. “Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.”
— Virginia Woolf

140. “I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.”
— Virginia Woolf

141. “The depths of the sea are only water after all.”
— Virginia Woolf

142. “My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”
— Virginia Woolf

143. “Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
— Virginia Woolf

144. “The mind is the most capricious of insects – flitting, fluttering.”
— Virginia Woolf

145. “Cierra con llave tus bibliotecas, si quieres, pero no hay barrera, cerradura, ni cerrojo que puedas imponer a la libertad de mi mente.”
— Virginia Woolf

146. “One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.”
— Virginia Woolf

147. “And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.”
— Virginia Woolf

148. “To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”
— Virginia Woolf

149. “Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.”
— Virginia Woolf

150. “That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”
— Virginia Woolf

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter known for his emotionally charged and innovative artworks. Despite a challenging life marked by mental health struggles, he produced over 2,000 pieces, including iconic works like “Sunflowers” and “Starry Night.” Van Gogh’s distinct style featured bold colors, broad brushstrokes, and intense emotion. His close relationship with his brother Theo supported him both emotionally and financially. Tragically, Van Gogh’s mental health deteriorated, and he died by suicide in 1890. Despite struggling during his lifetime, his posthumous recognition elevated him to the status of a master of modern art. His influence on subsequent generations of artists is profound, and his paintings are celebrated globally for their enduring impact on the art world.

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

1. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
— Vincent van Gogh

2. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
— Vincent van Gogh

3. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
— Vincent van Gogh

4. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent van Gogh

5. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
— Vincent van Gogh

6. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
— Vincent van Gogh

7. “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
— Vincent van Gogh

8. “What is done in love is done well.”
— Vincent van Gogh

9. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
— Vincent van Gogh

10. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
— Vincent van Gogh

11. “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
— Vincent van Gogh

12. “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
— Vincent van Gogh

13. “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
— Vincent van Gogh

14. “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
— Vincent van Gogh

15. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh

16. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh

17. “The sadness will last forever.”
— Vincent van Gogh

18. “It is good to 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 well done.”
— Vincent van Gogh

19. “In spite of everything, I shall rise again.”
— Vincent van Gogh

20. “I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.”
— Vincent van Gogh

21. “The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.”
— Vincent van Gogh

22. “Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
— Vincent van Gogh

23. “I will not live without love.”
— Vincent van Gogh

24. “One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
— Vincent van Gogh

25. “The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.”
— Vincent van Gogh

26. “I’ll start with small things.”
— Vincent van Gogh

27. “There is peace even in the storm.”
— Vincent van Gogh

28. “Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.”
— Vincent van Gogh

29. “Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”
— Vincent van Gogh

30. “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
— Vincent van Gogh

31. “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
— Vincent van Gogh

32. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh

33. “But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.”
— Vincent van Gogh

34. “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”
— Vincent van Gogh

35. “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
— Vincent van Gogh

36. “The more you love, the more you suffer.”
— Vincent van Gogh

37. “To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe, and drink one’s coffee in peace.”
— Vincent van Gogh

38. “Conscience is a man’s compass.”
— Vincent van Gogh

39. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say “he feels deeply, he feels tenderly”.”
— Vincent van Gogh

40. “Someday death will take us to another star.”
— Vincent van Gogh

41. “Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.”
— Vincent van Gogh

42. “The sight of stars makes me dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh

43. “In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
— Vincent van Gogh

44. “Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.”
— Vincent van Gogh

45. “Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.”
— Vincent van Gogh

46. “Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.”
— Vincent van Gogh

47. “If you end up falling in love with someone, it’s because of them. If you end up hating someone, it’s because of you.”
— Vincent van Gogh

48. “The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
— Vincent van Gogh

49. “Art is but imitation of nature.”
— Vincent van Gogh

50. “There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
— Vincent van Gogh

51. “We take death to reach a star.”
— Vincent van Gogh

52. “Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.”
— Vincent van Gogh

53. “I wish they would take me as I am.”
— Vincent van Gogh

54. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.”
— Vincent van Gogh

55. “Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.”
— Vincent van Gogh

56. “I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.”
— Vincent van Gogh

57. “Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.”
— Vincent van Gogh

58. “The sunflower is mine, in a way.”
— Vincent van Gogh

59. “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
— Vincent van Gogh

60. “Art demands constant observation.”
— Vincent van Gogh

61. “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
— Vincent van Gogh

62. “It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill – it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I’m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I’ll always remain half crazy.”
— Vincent van Gogh

63. “Don’t lose heart if it’s very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.”
— Vincent van Gogh

64. “I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.”
— Vincent van Gogh

65. “Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.”
— Vincent van Gogh

66. “I have walked the earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.”
— Vincent van Gogh

67. “Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.”
— Vincent van Gogh

68. “You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh

69. “Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”
— Vincent van Gogh

70. “Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of ‘you can’t.’”
— Vincent van Gogh

71. “I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it – keep going, keep going come what may.”
— Vincent van Gogh

72. “One can never study nature too much and too hard.”
— Vincent van Gogh

73. “Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
— Vincent van Gogh

74. “No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.”
— Vincent van Gogh

75. “We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words.”
— Vincent van Gogh

76. “The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.”
— Vincent van Gogh

77. “To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.”
— Vincent van Gogh

78. “Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one’s course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.”
— Vincent van Gogh

79. “To paint nature you must be in it a long time.”
— Vincent van Gogh

80. “Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.”
— Vincent van Gogh

81. “It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth.”
— Vincent van Gogh

82. “To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.”
— Vincent van Gogh

83. “Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.”
— Vincent van Gogh

84. “One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning.”
— Vincent van Gogh

85. “It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
— Vincent van Gogh

86. “One may have a blazing heart in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”
— Vincent van Gogh

87. “Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
— Vincent van Gogh

88. “One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.”
— Vincent van Gogh

89. “If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.”
— Vincent van Gogh

90. “The great artist is the simplifier.”
— Vincent van Gogh

91. “Christ is more of an artist than the artist; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.”
— Vincent van Gogh

92. “Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don’t know anything.”
— Vincent van Gogh

93. “But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakeable faith .”
— Vincent van Gogh

94. “Painting demands an intelligent model.”
— Vincent van Gogh

95. “I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
— Vincent van Gogh

96. “One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.”
— Vincent van Gogh

97. “I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.”
— Vincent van Gogh

98. “It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
— Vincent van Gogh

99. “I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.”
— Vincent van Gogh

100. “How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.”
— Vincent van Gogh

101. “Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.”
— Vincent van Gogh

102. “When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.”
— Vincent van Gogh

103. “The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.”
— Vincent van Gogh

104. “You can’t be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.”
— Vincent van Gogh

105. “If you don’t have a dog – at least one – there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
— Vincent van Gogh

106. “We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.”
— Vincent van Gogh

107. “How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”
— Vincent van Gogh

108. “For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can’t really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that’s to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can’t get on with the work.”
— Vincent van Gogh

109. “I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh

110. “As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
— Vincent van Gogh

111. “Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.”
— Vincent van Gogh

112. “Since visiting the abattoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.”
— Vincent van Gogh

113. “Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground – yet that ground is very dark…”
— Vincent van Gogh

114. “The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.”
— Vincent van Gogh

115. “We have very beautiful bad weather here at present – rain, wind, thunder – but with splendid effects; that’s why I like it.”
— Vincent van Gogh

116. “In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”
— Vincent van Gogh

117. “If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.”
— Vincent van Gogh

118. “Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”
— Vincent van Gogh

119. “The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.”
— Vincent van Gogh

120. “I thought I would be understood without words.”
— Vincent van Gogh

121. “How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?”
— Vincent van Gogh

122. “I never get tired of the blue sky.”
— Vincent van Gogh

123. “There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!”
— Vincent van Gogh

124. “I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterward.”
— Vincent van Gogh

125. “I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.”
— Vincent van Gogh

126. “For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy – that is what is hard to bear…”
— Vincent van Gogh

127. “But on the road that I’m on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don’t study, if I don’t keep on trying, then I’m lost, then woe betide me. That’s how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that’s what’s needed.”
— Vincent van Gogh

128. “What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.”
— Vincent van Gogh

129. “Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”
— Vincent van Gogh

130. “It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.”
— Vincent van Gogh

131. “Love is something eternal.”
— Vincent van Gogh

132. “The only thing to do is to go one’s own way, to try one’s best, to make the thing live.”
— Vincent van Gogh

133. “Only when I fall do I get up again.”
— Vincent van Gogh

134. “As a painter, I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it.”
— Vincent van Gogh

135. “Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.”
— Vincent van Gogh

136. “I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.”
— Vincent van Gogh

137. “The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”
— Vincent van Gogh

138. “There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.”
— Vincent van Gogh

139. “You have first to experience what you want to express.”
— Vincent van Gogh

140. “I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.”
— Vincent van Gogh

141. “How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”
— Vincent van Gogh

142. “So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”
— Vincent van Gogh

143. “That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.”
— Vincent van Gogh

144. “The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.”
— Vincent van Gogh

145. “I shouldn’t precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can’t very well get out of it.”
— Vincent van Gogh

146. “God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them.”
— Vincent van Gogh

147. “The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.”
— Vincent van Gogh

148. “To know life, one must love many things.”
— Vincent van Gogh

149. “Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make a distinction between good and evil.”
— Vincent van Gogh

150. “In trees, I see expression and soul.”
— Vincent van Gogh

151. “My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.”
— Vincent van Gogh

152. “I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.”
— Vincent van Gogh

153. “We must not judge God from this world. It’s just a study that didn’t come off. It’s only a master who could make such a blunder.”
— Vincent van Gogh

154. “People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.”
— Vincent van Gogh

155. “But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
— Vincent van Gogh

156. “I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.”
— Vincent van Gogh

157. “The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.”
— Vincent van Gogh

158. “To die for the sake of dying – I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!”
— Vincent van Gogh

159. “Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.”
— Vincent van Gogh

160. “The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh

161. “Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
— Vincent van Gogh

162. “What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?”
— Vincent van Gogh

163. “So instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress.”
— Vincent van Gogh

164. “It seems to me it’s a painter’s duty to try to put an idea into his work.”
— Vincent van Gogh

165. “It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.”
— Vincent van Gogh

166. “I want to paint humanity, humanity and again humanity.”
— Vincent van Gogh

167. “It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.”
— Vincent van Gogh

168. “At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.”
— Vincent van Gogh

169. “The earth from afar shines like a star.”
— Vincent van Gogh

170. “Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one’s work.”
— Vincent van Gogh

171. “It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn’t easy to paint oneself either.”
— Vincent van Gogh

172. “In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.”
— Vincent van Gogh

173. “To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.”
— Vincent van Gogh

174. “If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.”
— Vincent van Gogh

175. “Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.”
— Vincent van Gogh

176. “But one doesn’t expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.”
— Vincent van Gogh

177. “How difficult it is to be simple!”
— Vincent van Gogh

178. “The way to know life is to love many things.”
— Vincent van Gogh

179. “The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.”
— Vincent van Gogh

180. “We are surrounded by poetry on all sides…”
— Vincent van Gogh

181. “But for one’s health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.”
— Vincent van Gogh

182. “Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.”
— Vincent van Gogh

183. “And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”
— Vincent van Gogh

184. “The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.”
— Vincent van Gogh

185. “It’s better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”
— Vincent van Gogh

186. “I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.”
— Vincent van Gogh

187. “There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even – the French air clears up the brain and does good – a world of good.”
— Vincent van Gogh

188. “It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
— Vincent van Gogh

189. “When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”
— Vincent van Gogh

190. “So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.”
— Vincent van Gogh

191. “I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.”
— Vincent van Gogh

192. “How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won’t do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness.”
— Vincent van Gogh

193. “I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.”
— Vincent van Gogh

194. “I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I’ll recover from it, I’ll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I’ll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.”
— Vincent van Gogh

195. “Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”
— Vincent van Gogh

196. “To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.”
— Vincent van Gogh

197. “Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man’s soul.”
— Vincent van Gogh

198. “I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer’s fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.”
— Vincent van Gogh

199. “The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”
— Vincent van Gogh

200. “Drawing is the root of everything.”
— Vincent van Gogh