Marty Quotes

We get up in the morning and do what we must to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.

What matters finally is how we feel about ourselves. After all, to a worm we're just food.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.

Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

The hammer never complains of the noise.

You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.

Self-consciousness is hell.

It's during a storm that the best songs get written.

A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

A complicated idea is a confused idea.

Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

It could be worse... It could be raining

Nihilism is a subject for comedy.

Man is a problem-creating animal.

Nothing is more seductive than nothing.

When men set out to create order, they create only misery.

Revenge is starting a fire you can't control.

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

Everyone dies young.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.

From one dog all the dogs bark.

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.

The way to live well is to feel intensely.

The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists.

The hardest secret to keep is one you don't know you have

The unsaid rules every conversation.

Diseases aren't cured by giving them a name.

The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.

Sometimes being indifferent solves everything.

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

We are the mountains we must cross.

We waste this life dreaming of another.

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

I like paths that lead to no certain end, that keep me wondering where I am.

The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.