Marty Quotes

Diseases aren't cured by giving them a name.

The unsaid rules every conversation.

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

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

The way to live well is to feel intensely.

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

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

From one dog all the dogs bark.

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

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

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

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

Everyone dies young.

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

Revenge is starting a fire you can't control.

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

Nothing is more seductive than nothing.

Man is a problem-creating animal.

Nihilism is a subject for comedy.

It could be worse... It could be raining

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.

A complicated idea is a confused idea.

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

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

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

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

Self-consciousness is hell.

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

The hammer never complains of the noise.

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You get up each morning and do what you can to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.

A story has value whether it's true or not.

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.

Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is.

A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid.

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

You begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.

oYu begin with other people's stories and end up with your own.