Senior Quote

[E_Lewis]

My school does this thing where every senior puts a quote in the yearbook and I'm trying to decide what to use. If anyone has suggestions, that'd be great. Self-quotes, something a guy on the bus said, random, stupid, deep, author quotes, book quotes, Bible quotes, anything without swearing.

If it means something to you, please put it down, even if someone else already posted it.

 

I'd prefer to use a quote from a less used source, like, everyone uses Ghandi or Beatles quotes that have been used a million times, so make it as obscure as you want. (If you want to add one from a popular source please add it anyway)

 

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Dr. T]

"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too." — Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

does this one count? :)

[E_Lewis]

Yes that counts. :)

 

[Josh Braun]

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth" -Walt Whitman

"Putting our the stars and extinguishing the sun" -Ray Bradbury

"The home environment canundo a lot you try to do at school." -Ray Bradbury

"Thinking little at all about nothing in particular." -Ray Bradbury

"The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?" -Bob Marley

"Judge not unless you judge yourself" -Bob Marley

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect htose around him positively" -Bob Marley

"None but ourselves can free our minds" -Bob Marley

"He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt." -Joseph Heller

"Insanity is contagious." -Joseph Heller

"The terrible tyranny of the majority." Ray Bradbury

"One person's carziness is another person's reality." -Tim Burton

"Wit beyond measure is a mans greatest treasure" -No need to cite to a fellow nerdfigheter

"Numbing the pain for a while makes it worse when you finally feel it." -J.K.

"If you don't know whewre you are going, any road will get you there." -Lewis Carrol (Charles Lutwig"

"Who in the world amI? Ah, that's the great puzzle." -Lewis Carrol

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others." -Lewis Carrol

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wisht he author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." -J.D. Salinger

"I am always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though." -J.D. Salinger

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." -J.D. Salinger

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy." Ray Bradbury

"It was a pleasure to burn." Ray Bradbury

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us." Ray Bradbury

"I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things." Ray Bradbury

"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away." -Ray Bradbury

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." C.S. Lewis

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." -C.S. Lewis.

"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways." Yan Martel

"In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match." -Yann Martel

"The fear of death follows fromt he fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." Mark Twain

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want tol." -Jimi Hendrix

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die." Herbert Hoover

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." Mark Twain

"Whenever you find youself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them" Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography" Mark Twain

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." Mark Twain

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else." Mark Twain

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." Mark Twain

"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce." Mark Twain

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination." Mark Twain

"We're all mad here." Lewis Carrol

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." David Dunham

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." Lemony Snicket

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for you life is another." -Lemony Snicket

"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." Lemony Snicket

"I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." Lemony Snicket

"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then ;alksjdf;alskjdf;askdjf[;adsklfj." Lemony snicket

"Never look a gift lion in the mouth." Lemony Snicket

"The sad truth is the truth is sad." Lemony Snicket

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Sun Tzu

"Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" Sun Tzu

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation." Yann Martel

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.""

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Einstein

"You can love someone so much....But you can never love people as much as you can miss them." John Green

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia." John Green

"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." John Green

"If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane."

"She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it." Diane Setterfield

"What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in teh chimney?" Diane Setterfield

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian." Robert Orben

"If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?" -Jeery Seinfeld

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." Einstein

"The important thing is to not stop questioning." Einstein

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." Einstein

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." W.C. Fields

"Go to heaven for the climate and hellf or the company." Mark Twain

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down unitl it goes away." -Robert Maynard Hutchins

"We need to know that we are not alone." C.S. Lewis

"For it must be very lonely being dead." Diane Setterfield

"Of course I loved books more than people." Diane Setterfield

"One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everyhting else." Diane Setterfield

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believeing that it is stupid." Einstein

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." Einstein

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." Einstein

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." Einstein

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust." T.S. Elioit

"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." John Green

"Emily Dickinson wrote that success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed. And so too, youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young. Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed."

"Stick and stones may break my bones, but words will only cause deep psychology scarring."

"I like to think outside the quadrilateral parallelogram."

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."-Marcel Pagnol

"And it's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist."

"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow fromthe grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles." -Walt Whitman

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace."- Oscar Wilde

"Happiness isn't edible, but marshmallows are, and that's close enough."

"It is impossible to live without failing, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default." -J.K. Rowling

 

[E_Lewis]

Oooh! look at all the Lemony Snicket quotes! Whether I use these or not, I have my facebook status for the next week.

 

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia" is actually the Yeti. :) There's a good reason John picked her.

[Danno]

i think i remember hearing that.  still, she didn't claim it, nor put it in print.  and if anyone has free reign to borrow quotes is one's spouse.

[E_Lewis]

Who said the marshmallow thing?

[Josh Braun]

I don't know, but I found it on tumblr.

[Josh Braun]

I know, but it's in John's book, and it's cited under him and such.

[PlatypusPrime]

"No matter where you go, there you are." Buddhist concept/ Buckaroo Banzai quote