We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on wit...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn...
ERIK ERIKSON We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
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LEWIS CARROLL We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people...
KILROY J. OLDSTER An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's bec...
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WALTER KIRN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alon...
GABRIEL BYRNE Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then ...
BRAD PITT You can't be hateful because you love yourself. And we're extensions of each other; we'r...
CHRISSY METZ Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.
HELEN MIRREN How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for ea...
C. JOYBELL C. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's hap...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and bef...
ANDREW DAVIES There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies th...
LARRY WILMORE We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn...
FRANK PERETTI Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.
SUZY KASSEM We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up t...
TED DANSON Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
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AVA DUVERNAY Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die...
STEVE GLEASON I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own cul...
DAVID SYLVIAN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that&...
KATHARINE MCPHEE We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other...
BILLY GRAHAM I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than ...
DANIEL BERRIGAN We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
CAROL BURNETT There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that. But we're seeing a lot of frustration,...
BENJAMIN WATSON We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big one...
ANDY ROONEY U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and whe...
BONO Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?
KAPIL SIBAL We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not ex...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong...
LUPITA NYONG'O We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
MORTIMER ADLER We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we creat...
ORSON WELLES We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we're al...
CHERIE BLAIR You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. ...
AMY CHUA It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
SERJ TANKIAN Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.
JERRY FALWELL, JR. I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you'...
LADY GAGA We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I gu...
LIBBA BRAY We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our d...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won&...
BRUCE GREENWOOD We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream medi...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's...
ANDREW STANTON We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes...
JOHNNY VAN ZANT We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are...
DANIEL DENNETT We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART We are all staggered by the size of it. We are in awe that we were able to make this acquisition. We...
DAVID KOCH We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but ...
TOM BRADY When we die we leave behind us all that we have and take with us all that we are.
UNKNOWN Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They ca...
LAZ ALONSO Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't se...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each othe...
SIMON BIRD We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat...
GAIL DEVERS So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it i...
DAVE MATTHEWS We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like eac...
PETER DE VRIES On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we&#...
KATHY ACKER It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us hap...
LZ GRANDERSON The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, b...
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the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.

still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

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