Can't fucking sleep.

I think I'll list out all my favourite quotes in this post.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Author: Fannie Hurst

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
Author: David T. Wolf

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Author: Henry Louis Mencken

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxims (no. 194)

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
Author: Whitehead

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Author: Hosea Ballou

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Author: William Cowper

There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.
Author: George Eliot

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.
Author: Iba Ezra

Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Author: Anton Chekhov

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
Author: Anonymous

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
Author: Anonymous

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Author: Tennessee Williams

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Author: Booker T. Washington

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Author: Akiro Kurosawa

We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Author: Samuel Beckett

Every madman thinks all other men mad.
Author: Latin Proverb

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Author: Mark Twain

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Author: Thomas Szasz

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Author: Robert Burton

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Author: Gary Wills

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Author: Yul Brynner

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.
Author: Will Rogers

The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.
Author: Thomas Vian


ah, I'm finally showing signs of tiredness. I'm gonna crash for tonight, write something else tomorrow.