Quotes to inspire and reflect

If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,

Do you remember an Inn,

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:

Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light

Whatever happens we have got

Oh! let us never, never doubt

For every time She shouted ‘Fire!’

Here richly, with ridiculous display,

And always keep a-hold of Nurse

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,

Physicians of the Utmost Fame

I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten ‘em.

The immortal god of harmony.

Muss es sein? Es muss sein.

The fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique station, which, familiar to them and insignificant, does yet whisper to the tourist the last enchantments of the Middle Age.

The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again.

Even death is unreliable: instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

Habit is a great deadener.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!

VLADIMIR : That passed the time.

ESTRAGON : Charming spot. Inspiring prospects. Let’s go.

One of the thieves was saved. (Pause) It’s a reasonable percentage.

Nothing to be done.

You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Perhaps my best years are gone … but I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire that’s in me now.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius! … You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Those have most power to hurt us that we love.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

I hurry to laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep at it.

Nature is a temple, where, from living pillars, confused words are sometimes allowed to escape; here man passes, through forests of symbols, which watch him with looks of recognition.

Days and months are travellers of eternity.

Under the cherry—

Rainy days—

Early autumn—

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I’ve been using it for years.

I’m as pure as the driven slush.

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.