Umar-e-daraaz maang ke laaye they chaar din

Umar-e-daraaz maang ke laaye they chaar din,
Do aarzu mein katt gaye do intizaar mein..

Bahadur Shah Zafar

Zikr us ka hi sahi bazm main bethe ho Faraz, Dard kesa hi uthay hath na dil par rakhna..

Zikr us ka hi sahi bazm main bethe ho Faraz,

Dard kesa hi uthay hath na dil par rakhna..

Nafrat Ke Saaye me Palti hai Mohabbat.. Hathon me Hath h0n to Lakeerain Mil hi Jati hain..

Nafrat Ke Saaye me Palti hai Mohabbat..

Hathon me Hath h0n to Lakeerain Mil hi Jati hain..

kuch toh mere pindaar-e-muhabbat ka bharam rakh Tu bhi toh kabhi mujhko mananay ke liye aa.....

kuch toh mere pindaar-e-muhabbat ka bharam rakh
Tu bhi toh kabhi mujhko mananay ke liye aa.....

Aap Jaisi Aankhoon Wale Jab Rukte hain sahil per Lehraain Shoar Machati Hain Lo Aj Samnder Doob Gaya

Aap Jaisi Aankhoon Wale Jab Rukte hain sahil per

Lehraain Shoar Machati Hain Lo Aj Samnder Doob Gaya

Teri Ik Jhalak Ko Dil Taras Jata hai Mera...! Kismat Waale Hain Wo Log Jo Roz Tera Dedar Karte Hain...'

Teri Ik Jhalak Ko Dil Taras
Jata hai Mera...!

Kismat Waale Hain Wo Log
Jo Roz Tera Dedar Karte Hain...'

دیکھتے ہی مجھے محفل میں یہ ارشاد ہوا، کون بیٹھا ہے اسے لوگ اٹھاتے بھی نہیں !

دیکھتے ہی مجھے محفل میں یہ ارشاد ہوا،
کون بیٹھا ہے اسے لوگ اٹھاتے بھی نہیں !

Mujhe Us masoom Si larki pe taras aata hai.. Usy dekho to... Muhabbat me magan kesi hai...

Mujhe Us masoom Si larki pe taras aata hai..

Usy dekho to... Muhabbat me magan kesi hai...

Faqat ek baat kehna chahta hun

Faqat ek baat kehna chahta hun
Teri ankhon main rehna chahta hun

Bohat jaag chuka hun tere hijr main
Tere anchal main sona chahta hun

Zamane bhar ki khushian aur tera gham
Ye gham me kuch aur ab sehna chahta hun,

Aany Lagi Thi Us Ki Jabeen Par Shikkan,,,, Izhaar-E-Ishq kar K Mukarna Para Mujhe!!!!

Aany Lagi Thi Us Ki Jabeen Par Shikkan,,,,

Izhaar-E-Ishq kar K Mukarna Para Mujhe!!!!

Ab b aa jata ha mery khyalon me wo.. Aj b lgti ha haazri, us ghair haazir ki..

Ab b aa jata ha mery khyalon me wo..

Aj b lgti ha haazri, us ghair haazir ki..

!!... Sil'Sila Fajar tk Ja P0hncha Aazaan_E_Isha say... Hum Khayal_E_Yaar Mein Bethy W0zu hi Kartay Rahay ...!!

!!... Sil'Sila Fajar tk Ja P0hncha Aazaan_E_Isha say...

Hum Khayal_E_Yaar Mein Bethy W0zu hi Kartay Rahay ...!!

Han thek ha me apni ana ka mrez hun Akher mere mzaj me q dakhl dy koi

Han thek ha me apni ana ka mrez hun
Akher mere mzaj me q dakhl dy koi

koi rishta jo na hota to khafa kyun hota Ye berukhi teri muhabbat ka pata deti hai...

koi rishta jo na hota to khafa kyun hota
Ye berukhi teri muhabbat ka pata deti hai...

Hum to tere dil ki mahfil sajane aye thay

Hum to tere dil ki mahfil sajane aye
thay,

teri kasam tujhy apna banany aye
thay.

kis bat ki saza di tu ne ham ko,

bewafa hum to tere dard ko apnany aye thay...!!

tmhary bad mai jis ka ho gaya. . . . . . . han usi ka name tanhai hay

tmhary bad mai jis ka ho gaya.
. . . . . .
han usi ka name tanhai hay

Ehtiyaatan Bujha Sa Rehta Hoon.. Jalta Rehta Toh Raakh Hojata...!!

Ehtiyaatan Bujha Sa Rehta Hoon..
Jalta Rehta Toh Raakh Hojata...!!

لاکھ مشکل ھو راستہ کوئی، مجھ کو دیتا ھے حوصلہ کوئی، دکھ سے آتے ہیں آنکھ میں آنسو، کون روتا ھے بے وجہ کوئی،

لاکھ مشکل ھو راستہ کوئی،
مجھ کو دیتا ھے حوصلہ کوئی،

دکھ سے آتے ہیں آنکھ میں آنسو،
کون روتا ھے بے وجہ کوئی،

Kissy se juda hona agar itna asan hota, to jism se rooh ko lene farishte na aatey....

Kissy se juda hona agar itna asan hota,

to

jism se rooh ko lene farishte na aatey....

us ki or mrii arzo m bs yhii to frk tha mjhy bsssss woo or usy sara zmana cahye tha.....

us ki or mrii arzo m bs yhii to frk tha
mjhy bsssss woo or usy sara zmana cahye tha.....

جانے کس غم کو چھپانے کی تمنا ھے اسے، آج ھر بات پے ھنستے ھوئے دیکھا اسکو۔

جانے کس غم کو چھپانے کی تمنا ھے اسے،

آج ھر بات پے ھنستے ھوئے دیکھا اسکو۔

Gar baazi ishq ki baazi hai. .

Gar baazi ishq ki baazi hai. . . Jo chahy lga do dar kaisa'
Gar jeet gaye to kya kehna. . . Haary bhi to baazi maat nahi'

Wo meri zaat ka ik Mustanid hawaala hai ..!!! Kitaab-e -ishq k saaray Nissaab Us k hain...!!!

Wo meri zaat ka ik Mustanid hawaala
hai ..!!!
Kitaab-e -ishq k saaray Nissaab Us k
hain...!!!

Tum Bilkul Zindgi Jaise Ho...? . . . Khubsurat, Magar Be_Aitbar.....!!

Tum Bilkul Zindgi
Jaise Ho...?
.
.
.
Khubsurat, Magar Be_Aitbar.....!!

Tum Hi Ho

Sawal kuch bhi ho.
Jawab tum hi ho,
Rasta koi bhi ho,
Manzil tum hi ho,
Dukh kitna hi ho,
Khushi tum hi ho,
Arman kitne bhi ho,
Aarzoo tum hi ho,
Gussa kitna bhi ho,
Pyar tum hi ho,
Khwab koi bhi ho,
Usme tum hi ho...tum hi ho.....

Asool-e-Ishq sirf Itna Hai, Jhuka Ky Sar, Hukam Mano, Kyun? Kya? Kaise? Karny Sy Khafaa Mehboob Hotay Hain...!!!

Asool-e-Ishq sirf Itna Hai,
Jhuka Ky Sar, Hukam Mano,

Kyun? Kya? Kaise?
Karny Sy Khafaa
Mehboob Hotay Hain...!!!

Udasi, Sham, Tanhai, Kasak Aur Yaadon K Be chaini

Udasi, Sham, Tanhai, Kasak Aur Yaadon K Be chaini
Muje Sab Sonp Kar Soraj Utar Jata Hai Pani Mai

Jo teri muntazir theen woh ankhen hi bujh gayin, Ab kyun sajaa raha hai charaaghon se shaam ko..

Jo teri muntazir theen woh ankhen hi bujh gayin,

Ab kyun sajaa raha hai charaaghon se shaam ko..

Ek masoom si dua hai inn labon pe, Koi kuch bhi karay mohabbat ke siwaa..

Ek masoom si dua hai inn labon pe,
Koi kuch bhi karay mohabbat ke siwaa..

Marhale shoq ke dushwaar hua karte hain

Marhale shoq ke dushwaar hua karte hain,
Saaye bhi raah ki diwaar hua karte hain,

Wo jo sach bolte rehne ki kasam khaate hain,
Wo adaalat mein gunaah-gaar hua karte hain,

Sirf haathon ko na dekho kabhi aakhen bhi parho,
Kuchh sawaali bade khuddaar hua karte hain,

Wo jo pathar yuunhi raste mein pade rehte hain,
Un ke seene mein bhi shaah-kaar howa karte hain..

Ab to agey naam tumhara bhi aaye ga, Kaho to chorr doon yahin fasaaney ko..

Ab to agey naam tumhara bhi aaye ga,
Kaho to chorr doon yahin fasaaney ko..

Bana kar Taj Mahal kisi shehenshah ne dolat se, Hum ghareebon ki mohabbat ka mazaq urraya hai..

Bana kar Taj Mahal kisi shehenshah ne dolat se,
Hum ghareebon ki mohabbat ka mazaq urraya hai..

Best Shayari Collection

 Chalo Faraz! tark karen ye Shayri-o-Ashiqui,

Suna hai Judai Maut Hoti Hai, Muhabbat Maar Deti Hai.

Faraz Ahmed Faraz

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Shairy teri miraas to nahi “Basit”
Ata Hua hai jo Tarz E Bayan kiska hai

Abdul Basit

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Kitab E dil se nikale huyee hain ye auraq
Zara sabhal kar rakhna K kho na jaye kahiN
Ghalib Ayaz
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Jab se jawan huyee ho yeh chal kya nikali hai
Jab tum chala kare ho thokar laga kare hai
Mir Taqi Mir
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Diwangi “Asad” ki hasrat kashish E tarb hai
Sar mai hawa E gulshan , dil mai ghubar E sehra
Mir Taqi Mir
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Tum mere pass hote ho goya
Jab koyee doosra nahi hota
Momin Khan Momin
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Patta patta buta buta hal hamara jane hai
Jane na jane gul hi bagh to sara jane hai
Mir Taqi Mir
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Ishq per zore nahi hai wo aatish E ghalib
Ke laga E na lage aur bujhaye na bane
Mirza Ghalib
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Dil E nadaN tujhe huaa kya hai
Aakhir is dard ki dawa kya hai
Mirza Ghalib
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Deakh to dil ke jan se uthta hai
Ye dhuaaN sa kahan se uthta hai
Mir Taqi Mir
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Teri ummeed tera intezar jab se hai
Na shab ko din se shikayat na din ko shab se hai
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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GuloN mai rang bhare baad E now bahar chale
Chale bhi aao ke ghulshun ka karobar chale
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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Isi sabab se falak ka gila nahi karte
Tere feraq mai hum dil bara nahi karte
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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Dil hai to dharakne ka koyee bahana dhundhe
Pathther ki tarah be husN O jan kyoN hai
Shahr Yar
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Ai dost mai khamosh kisi dar se nahi tha
Qayel hi teri bat ka ander se nahi tha
Bani
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Mere sokoot se jis ko gale rahe kya kiya
Bichherte waqt wo aankoN ka bolna deakhe
Perveen Shakir
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Ab kar ke faramosh to nashad karo ge
Per hum jo na hoN ge to bahut yad karo ge
Mir Taqi Mir
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Dil woh nager nahi ke phir aabad ho sake
Pachta O ge suno yeh basti ujar kar
Mir Taqi Mir
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Hijrat ka etebar kahan ho sake ke jab
Chori huyee jaghah ki nishaN bhi sath hai
Perveen Shakir
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Suraj bhi Is ko dhoond kar wapas chala gya
Hum bhi ghar ko laut chaleN sham ho gyeN
Perveen Shakir
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Wo bhala kis ki bat mane haiN
Bhai syed to kuch dewane haiN
Akber Allahabadi
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Dasht se jhoom Ke jab saba aati hai
Saaf ghunchoN Ke chatakne ki sada aati hai
Baber Ali Anis
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Shaakh zaitoon ameeN hum hain
Shahar mai ishtehar ho ke na ho
Ghalib Ayaz
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Kha kha ke Os aur sabza hara huaa
Tha motiyoN se daman E sehra bhara huaa
Baber Ali Anis
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Kamer bandhe huye chalne ko yaN sab yaar baiThe haiN
Bahut aage gaye baqui jo hain taiyyar baiThe haiN
Insha Allah Khan Insha
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Mar bhi jaauN to kahaN log bhula hi deNge
Lafz mere mere hone ki gawaahi deNge
Perveen Shakir
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Yeh Isq nahi asaN bas itna samajh leeje
Ek aag ka dariya hai aur is se guzarna hai
Jigar Muradabadi
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Mai akela hi chala tha janib E manzil mager
Log sath aate gye aur karwan banta gya
Majaz
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Apne man mai doob kar pa ja suragh E zindagi
Tu ager mera nahi banta ‘na ban apna to ban
Allama Iqbal
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Apna to kam hai ke jalate chalo chiragh
Raste khwah dost ya dushman ka ghar mile
Kalim Ahmad Ajiz
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Hain aur bhi duniyaN mai sokhanwer bahut achhe
Kahte hai ke ghalib ka hai andaz E bayaN aur
Mirza Ghalib
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Koyee rota hai dil mai pichle pahar
Koun mahboos is makan mai hai
Ghalib Ayaz
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Fani Deccan mai aa ke yeh uqdah khula ke hum
Hindustan mai rahte hain hindustan se door
Fani Bada Yni
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Jo sach puchho to” shad ” apne kiye kuch ho nahi sakta
Khuda ki dain hai insan ka mashhoor ho jana
Shad Azimabadi
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Jab tum mujhe pukarna chaho
Raushani raushani ; sada dena
Ghalib Ayaz

Bas yunhi umeed dilatey hain zamaney waley

Bas yunhi umeed dilatey hain zamaney waley,
Laut kar to naheen aatey hain jaaney waley,

Mohabbat to lagti hai bheek ki maanind,
Khud hi nibhaatey hain nibhaney waley,

Kya zulm ka manzar hai ya khawb hai yeh,
Afsos bhi karte hain ghar jalaney waley..

Woh Samajhta Hai K Har Shakhs BadaL Jata Hai Usay Lagta Hai Zamana Us Kay Jaisa Hai..!!

Woh Samajhta Hai K Har Shakhs BadaL Jata Hai
Usay Lagta Hai Zamana Us Kay Jaisa Hai..!!

Waqt-e-rukhsat ajab manzar tha meri nigah main, Wo bhi ro raha tha jisey ghum na tha judai ka..

Waqt-e-rukhsat ajab manzar tha meri nigah main,
Wo bhi ro raha tha jisey ghum na tha judai ka..

Bataaon tumhe kahaani udaas logon ki,? Kabhi ghaur karna yeh hanstey bohat hain

Bataaon tumhe kahaani udaas logon ki,?
Kabhi ghaur karna yeh hanstey bohat hain

Ek Fard e Qalandar ne Ajab Baat Kahi Thi Ae Shakhs! Tere Yaar Wafadaar Na Hon Ge

Ek Fard e Qalandar ne Ajab Baat Kahi Thi
Ae Shakhs! Tere Yaar Wafadaar Na Hon Ge

Ek tum hi nahi meri judai mein pareshaan Hum bhi tau teri chaah mein weeraan bahut hain

Ek tum hi nahi meri judai mein pareshaan
Hum bhi tau teri chaah mein weeraan bahut hain

Juda hoye hein boht loog aik tum b sahi ab itni baat pe kia zindagi haraam karein

Juda hoye hein boht loog aik tum b sahi

ab itni baat pe kia zindagi haraam karein

Kya us se chupaaon ke nahin ghair bhi itna, Kya us ko bataaon, mera apnaa to nahin woh..

Kya us se chupaaon ke nahin ghair bhi itna,

Kya us ko bataaon, mera apnaa to nahin woh..

Salwatain hain Meray Chehray pe tu Hairat Kaisi Zindagi nay Mujay Ap sy kuch Zyada Parkha....!!

Salwatain hain Meray Chehray pe tu Hairat Kaisi
Zindagi nay Mujay Ap sy kuch Zyada Parkha....!!

Koshish Ke Bawajood Jo Mukammal Na Ho Saken, Tera Naam Bhi Unhin Khuwahishon Mein Hai….

Koshish Ke Bawajood Jo Mukammal Na Ho Saken,

Tera Naam Bhi Unhin Khuwahishon Mein Hai…..

Emaan Mujhe Rooke Hai Jo Kheenche Hai Mujhe Kufar, Kaaba Mere Peeche Hai, Kaleesa Mere Aage….

Emaan Mujhe Rooke Hai Jo Kheenche Hai Mujhe Kufar,
Kaaba Mere Peeche Hai, Kaleesa Mere Aage….!

Tere Bin Kuch Be_Chain Sa Rehne Laga Hun, Kambakht Ashk Bhi Tujhse Milne Nikal Parte Hain

Tere Bin Kuch Be_Chain Sa Rehne Laga Hun,
Kambakht Ashk Bhi Tujhse Milne Nikal Parte Hain...

Yeh Meri Zaat Ki Sab Se Bari Tamanna Thi, Kaash! Ke Woh Mera Hota, Mere Naam Ki Tarhan

Yeh Meri Zaat Ki Sab Se Bari Tamanna Thi,

Kaash! Ke Woh Mera Hota, Mere Naam Ki Tarhan...

Be-Khudi Be-Sabab Nahi’n ‘Ghalib’, Kuchh To Hai Jis Ki Parda-Daari Hai…

Be-Khudi Be-Sabab Nahi’n ‘Ghalib’,

Kuchh To Hai Jis Ki Parda-Daari Hai…

Hawas naseeb e nazar ko kahien qarar nahi

Hawas naseeb e nazar ko kahien qarar nahi,
Main muntazir hun magar tera intazar nahi,

Humi say rang e gulistan humi say rang e bahar,
Humi ko nazm e gulistan pey ikhtayar nahi,

Abhi na cher mohabbat kay geet ay matrab,
Abhi hayat ka mahool khushgawar nahi,

Tumharey ehad e wafa ko main ehad kya samjhon,
Mujhey khud apni mohabbat ka aitbar nahi,

Na janey kitney giley is me muztarib hain nadeem,
Wo ek dil kisi ka gila guzar nahi,

Gurez ka nahi qail hayat sey lekin,
Jo sach kahon to mujhey maot nagwar nahi,

Ye kis muqaam pey pohncha dia zamaney ney,
Kay ab hayat pey tera bhi ikhtayar nahi.

Sahir ludhyanvi

Day Dreaming Quotes

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten.  Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.  ~W.H. Auden


How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!  ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts


He does not need opium.  He has the gift of reverie.  ~Anais Nin


To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy.  Reverie is the child of extremes.  ~Antoine Rivarol


Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.  ~John Locke


I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.  ~Steven Wright


All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.  ~V.V. Rozanov


People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.  ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.  ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows


Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles.  ~Lorraine Skylark


Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.  ~Henry David Thoreau


One man's daydreaming is another man's day.  ~Grey Livingston


One man's daydreaming is another man's novel.  ~Grey Livingston


One man's daydreaming is another man's woman.  ~Grey Livingston


Ah, the things we would do if we could - especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.  ~Luis Buñuel


You get ideas from daydreaming.  You get ideas from being bored.  You get ideas all the time.  The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.  ~Neil Gaiman


Television is simply automated daydreaming.  ~Lee Loevinger


I live my daydreams in music.  ~Albert Einstein


It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.  ~James Douglas


Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.  ~Victor Hugo


Reverie is not a mind vacuum.  It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.  ~Gaston Bachelard

Death Quotes

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.  ~Author Unknown


All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.  ~Mark Twain


I'm not afraid of death.  It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.  ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.  ~Maurice Maeterlinck


To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.  ~Samuel Butler


Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,
And spent my little life without a thought,
And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,
Should think of me, who never thought of him.
~René Francois Regnier


The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.  ~Mark Twain


We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.  We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.  ~David Sarnoff


Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.  ~Francis Bacon, Essays


If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.  ~From the television show Roseanne


Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.  ~Henry Van Dyke


He who doesn't fear death dies only once.  ~Giovanni Falcone


People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.  It is as though they were traveling abroad.  ~Marcel Proust


Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
~Emily Dickinson


A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.  ~Percival Arland Ussher


The idea is to die young as late as possible.  ~Ashley Montagu


'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.  ~Lord Byron


No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.  ~Euripides


Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up.  I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.  Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery.  People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap.  Who wants flowers when you're dead?  Nobody.  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945


While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.  ~Leonardo Da Vinci


Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.  ~Alice Walker


I shall not die of a cold.  I shall die of having lived.  ~Willa Cather


Death is a distant rumor to the young.  ~Andrew A. Rooney


A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.  ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain


There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.  ~Kenneth Patchen


If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery.  He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does.  In place of this we have death.  ~Charles Sanders Peirce


Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.  ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage


God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.  ~John Donne


The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.  ~Seneca


Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
~Horace


Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.  For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.  ~Albert Einstein


Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.  ~Socrates


In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight....
Not people die but worlds die in them.
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "People"


Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.  ~Jean de La Fontaine


Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.  ~Attributed to George Carlin


As o'er the stormy sea of human Life
We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest
In the far haven of Eternity,...
~Robert Montgomery, "A Universal Prayer," A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829


Death does not wait to see if things are done or not done. ~Kularnava


Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.  ~Erik H. Erikson


Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.  ~Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky


Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.  ~Herodotus


We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future.  It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.  ~Marcel Proust


Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole
Of life that quickens in the sod.
~Charles Hanson Towne


Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.  ~Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo"


We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.  ~Madame de Stael


From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.  ~Edvard Munch


There's nothing certain in a man's life except this:  That he must lose it.  ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon


Death is not the greatest loss in life.  The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.  ~Norman Cousins


The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers
And death as beautiful as autumn leaves.
~Rabindranath Tagore


Death is a debt we all must pay.  ~Euripides


They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.  ~Arthur Schopenhauer


He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


People living deeply have no fear of death. ~Anaiïs Nin, Diary, 1967


When I think of ages past
That have floated down the stream
Of life and love and death,
I feel how free it makes us
To pass away.
~Rabindranath Tagore


To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Expeditions of an Untimely Man


Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. ~George Bernard Shaw


If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. ~The Crow, written by James O'Barr, David J. Schow, and John Shirley, 1994


I knew a man who once said, "death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back." ~Gladiator, written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson, 2000


Our birth is nothing but our death begun. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts


I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. ~Wilson Mizner


No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. ~Plato


For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?  ~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet"  (Thanks, Roxalanne)


Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.  ~Homer, Iliad


Death is the surest calculation that can be made.  ~Ludwig Büchner, Force and Matter


Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."  ~Bill Maher, on Politically Incorrect, 1995


Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets.  ~Wilfred Sheed, The Good Word, 1978


After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.  ~J.K. Rowling


You will never find that life for which you are looking.  When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.  ~The Epic of Gilgamesh


Death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.
~John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi


My soul is full of whispered song;
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are all alive with light.
~Alice Cary, Dying Hymn


God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.  ~Jacques Rigaut, Pensées


Embalm, v.:  To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds.  By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew.  The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility.  We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus.  ~Ambrose Bierce


He first deceas'd; She for a little tri'd
To live without him: lik'd it not, and di'd.
~Henry Worton


The goal of all life is death.  ~Sigmund Freud


I sing of Death; yet soon, perchance may be
A dweller in the tomb. But twenty years
Have wither'd, since my pilgrimage began,
And I look back upon my boyish days
With mournful joy; as musing wand'rers do,
With eye reverted, from some lofty hill,
Upon the bright and peaceful vale below.—
Oh! let me live, until the fires that feed
My soul, have work'd themselves away, and then,
Eternal Spirit, take me to Thy home!
For when a child, I shaped inspiring dreams,
And nourish'd aspirations that awoke
Beautiful feelings flowing from the face
Of Nature; from a child, I learn'd to reap
A harvest of sweet thoughts for future years.
~Robert Montgomery, "Death," A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829


Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! ~E.M. Cioran


In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight.  Not people die but worlds die in them.  ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko


Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.  ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


For death,
Now I know, is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life, which is of all life center.
~Edwin Arnold


When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever.... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.  ~H.L. Mencken


Oh, for the time when I shall sleep
Without identity.
~Emily Bronte


The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without. ~Quoted in Elbert Hubbard, "The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest," 1907; often modernized as "The graveyards are full of indispensable men."  (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)


And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.  ~Homer, Iliad


Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto death.
~Witter Bynner, "The Patient to the Doctors"


Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life.  ~Henry David Thoreau, 11 March 1842, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson


Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night's dream.
~Ryokan


To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.  ~C.G. Jung


Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.  ~Mortimer Collins


Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep.  Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.  ~Philip Dow


Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality! ~Heinrich Heine, "The Hartz Journey" (1824), Pictures of Travel, translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1855


For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.  ~William Penn


But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.  ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried


Paradise -
I see flowers
from the cottage where I lie.
~Yaitsu's death poem, 1807


Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.  ~Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.  ~Leonardo da Vinci


On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.  ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club


God made death so we'd know when to stop.  ~Steven Stiles


Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.  That signifies nothing.  For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.  ~Albert Einstein


There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.  ~Harvey Cushing


A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.  ~Stewart Alsop


I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.  ~Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death


Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between. ~Terri Guillemets


The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.  ~Doris Day


Well, right now... I'm not dead.  But when I am, it's like... I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.... An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.  ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried


Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.  ~J.J. Furnas


Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again.
~George Eliot, The Choir Invisible


Die, v.:  To stop sinning suddenly.  ~Elbert Hubbard


I intend to live forever.  So far, so good.  ~Steven Wright


I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.  ~R. Geis


Anyhow, it's not so bad.... I mean, when you're dead, you just have to be yourself.  ~Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried


You can be a king or a street sweeper,
but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
~Robert Alton Harris


Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.  ~Author Unknown


Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.  ~John Muir

Decision Making Quotes

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.  ~Rita Mae Brown


When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.  ~William James


It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.  ~Roy Disney


Choices are the hinges of destiny.  ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras


Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly.  But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.  ~Lord Mansfield


Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.  ~Brendan Francis


When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.  ~Author Unknown


Life is the sum of all your choices.  ~Albert Camus


The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.  ~David Russell


Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.  ~Herman Broch


Indecision becomes decision with time.  ~Author Unknown


Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.  ~Anthony Robbins


The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.  ~Flora Whittemore


To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.  ~Anso Coetzer


In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.  ~T.S. Eliot


Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.  ~Author Unknown


Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Reconsider, v.  To seek a justification for a decision already made.  ~Ambrose Bierce


The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience.  ~Author Unknown


Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.  ~Denis Waitley

Dream Quotes

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.  ~H.F. Hedge Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.  ~X-Files All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.  ~Elias Canetti Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.  ~Author Unknown A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.  ~The Talmud Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.  ~Marsha Norman A dream has power to poison sleep.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability" Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.  ~William Dement Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.  ~Edgar Cayce I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.  ~Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy" Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.  ~Henri Amiel There's a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.  ~Stoddard King, Jr. Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.  ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994 One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.  ~Evelyn Waugh Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.  ~Gail Godwin That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.  ~Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.  ~Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.  ~Vivian Mercer I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.  ~Samuel Lover, Rory O' More Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves.  The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully.  Right now.  And always.  Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.  ~Marc Ian Barasch I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, "Inspiration" In a dream you are never eighty.  ~Anne Sexton In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.  ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie) I'll take the dream I had last night, And put it in my freezer, So someday long and far away, When I'm an old grey greezer, I'll take it out and thaw it out, This lovely dream I've frozen, And boil it up and sit me down And dip my old cold toes in. ~Shel Silverstein, "Frozen Dream," A Light in the Attic It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about.  We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.  ~Louis de Bernières I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~Andre Breton, "Manifesto of Surrealism," 1924 [O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Dreams digest the meals that are our days. ~Terri Guillemets A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~Erich Fromm  (Thanks, Sarah) Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. ~Ashleigh Brilliant Codi:  "So you think we all just have animal dreams.  We can't think of anything to dream except our ordinary lives." Loyd:  "Only if you have an ordinary life.  If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.  ~Erich Fromm For a dreamer, night's the only time of day.  ~From the movie Newsies Those who have compared our life to a dream were right.... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.  ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580

Curiosity Quotes

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt


Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.  ~Bernard Baruch


The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity.  ~Dorothy Parker  (Thanks, Kaitlin)


I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.  ~Franklin P. Adams


I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious.  ~Albert Einstein


Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.  ~Sudie Back


Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.  ~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.  ~Albert Einstein


Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.  ~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold


Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.  ~Arnold Edinborough


Curiosity is only vanity.  Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk.  We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées


While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I keep six honest serving-men,
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
~Rudyard Kipling


Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.  ~David Sedaris


There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.  ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz


The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.  ~Ralph W. Sockman


The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.  ~Bishop Mandell Creighton

Crying Quotes

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.  ~Henry Maudsley


When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Let your tears come.  Let them water your soul.  ~Eileen Mayhew


Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut


Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations


[Y]our tears are heaven's rain. ~Karen Poston, "Lydia"


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney


Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee


Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.  ~Antoine Rivarol


Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrows follow.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


A woman wears her tears like jewelry.  ~Author Unknown


Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.  ~Hosea Ballou


To weep is to make less the depth of grief.  ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth


It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.  ~Ovid


Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.  ~Golda Meir


Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.  ~Albert Smith


Tears are God’s gift to us.  Our holy water.  They heal us as they flow.  ~Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company


Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.  ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)


Women are never landlocked:  they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Tears are words the heart can't express. ~Author Unknown


Tears are Summer showers to the soul.  ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola


Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.
~Dorothy Parker


Tears are the silent language of grief.  ~Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary


Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.  ~Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias


What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb


I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying. ~Terri Guillemets


Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away. ~Jessica Simpson (2009 tweet)


I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry.  I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week.  I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.  ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar


The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.  ~Isak Dinesen


Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. ~Lemony Snicket


Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend. ~Terri Guillemets


More grievous than tears is the sight of them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry. ~Jean Rhys


I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I'm really crying. Crying just isn't crying unless it's messy. ~Terri Guillemets


It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Courage Quotes

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.  ~Samuel Johnson  (Thanks, Frank Lynch)


Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  ~Ambrose Redmoon


Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every day you either see a scar or courage.  Where you dwell will define your struggle.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  ~Winston Churchill


Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.  ~Mary Anne Radmacher


It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.  ~Mark Twain


People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.  ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.  ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894


It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.  ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird


Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  ~Dan Rather


Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared.  ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker


A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.  ~Marvin Kitman


Coward:  A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.  ~Sultana Zoraya


Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.  ~Franklin P. Jones


Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs?  ~Marvin Kitman


Coward:  One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.  ~Ambrose Bierce


Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.  ~Lauren Raffo


Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.  ~Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942


Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.  ~Thomas Fuller


Fear and courage are brothers.  ~Proverb


Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.  ~C.S. Lewis


The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.  ~John F. Kennedy


One man with courage makes a majority.  ~Andrew Jackson


Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.  ~Raymond Lindquist


Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.  ~Michel de Montaigne


When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.  ~Mark Rutherford


True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.  ~Alfred North Whitehead

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.  ~Kurt Goldstein


To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.  ~Edward Weeks


A man of courage never wants weapons.  ~Author Unknown


Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing.  Bravely face whatever the gods offer.  ~Morihei Ueshiba


Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little.  ~Tori Amos


It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.  ~Aesop


Cowards, 'tis said, in certain situations,
Derive a sort of courage from despair,
And then perform, from downright desperation,
Much more than many a bolder man would dare.
~Thomas Ingoldsby, "The Ghost," 1837


A brave arm makes a short sword long.  ~Author Unknown


No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.  ~Henry S. Haskins


There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.  ~John Wainwright


Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together."  Hold courage's hand and walk away.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


I'm not funny.  What I am is brave.  ~Lucille Ball


Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.  ~Charles Kennedy


For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.  ~John F. Kennedy


Courage is fear that has said its prayers.  ~Dorothy Bernard


Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.  ~George Smith Patton


I have no fear! what is in store for me
Shall find me self-reliant, undismayed.
God grant my only cowardice may be:
Afraid to be afraid!
~Everard Jack Appleton, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915


Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together. ~Terri Guillemets


Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion


Courage is knowing what not to fear.  ~Plato


Optimism is the foundation of courage.  ~Nicholas Murray Butler


Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.  ~Diane de Poitiers


To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.  ~Coventry Patmore


Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.  ~John Wayne


Necessity does the work of courage.  ~Nicholas Murray Butler


Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678


Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.  It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.  ~G.K. Chesterton


Courage crawls atop fear and screams loud its mighty victory!  ~Terri Guillemets


Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.  ~Horace Smith


Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.  ~Douglas Malloch


The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.  ~Albert Camus


Courage is nine-tenths context.  What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.  ~Joseph Epstein


A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.  ~Arthur Koestler


Courage is a kind of salvation. ~Plato


Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice. ~Terri Guillemets


Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. ~Carl Sandburg


Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.  ~H.G. Bohn


You can't test courage cautiously.  ~Anne Dillard


The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned.  When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.  ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935


I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.  It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.  You rarely win, but sometimes you do.  ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird


I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom.  You take away wisdom from the equation - courage may turn to rage.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.  ~Jean Paul Richter


Have the courage to live.  Anyone can die.  ~Robert Cody

Confidence Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.  ~Sally Field Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.  ~Author Unknown Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven. ~William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  ~David Brinkley It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.  ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.  ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.  ~W.C. Fields Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.  ~Henry Ford I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.  ~Vincent Van Gogh Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know.  Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.  ~Buckminster Fuller Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein Success comes in cans, not cant's.  ~Author Unknown Put your future in good hands - your own.  ~Author Unknown What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.  ~John Bunyan I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.  ~Lauren Bacall The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief.  ~Shawn Purvis, ShawnPurvis.com I'm not old enough to play baseball or football.  I'm not eight yet.  My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation.  I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast.  When I play baseball, I'll  just hit them out of the park.  Then I'll be able to walk.  ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993 If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.  ~Author Unknown Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  ~Peter T. Mcintyre Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.  ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969 Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.  ~Richard Bach, Illusions You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.  ~Mark Twain Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.  ~Bruce Barton A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.  ~Sydney Smith Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.  ~Mary Kay Ash Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.  ~Norman Vincent Peale Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown.  ~Author Unknown The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.  ~Paul Tillich Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.  ~Michel de Montaigne People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.  ~Sa'Di It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.  ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970 When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.  ~Cecil Selig Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.  ~Les Brown You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. ~Dr. Seuss Confidence is preparation.  Everything else is beyond your control.  ~Richard Kline Knock the "t" off the "can't."  ~Samuel Johnson Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.  ~Sophia Loren They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.  ~Christian Bovee We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Don't be distracted by criticism.  Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.  ~Zig Ziglar I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.  ~Edgar Allan Poe Your value is the product of your thoughts.  Do not miscalculate your self worth by multiplying your insecurities.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.  ~Henrik Ibsen Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.  ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, originally published anonymously; commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (Thanks, Garson O'Toole and walden.org!) The horizon, to remind you of your courage, sends its gentle waves of confidence to kiss your feet.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com Never dull your shine for somebody else.  ~Tyra Banks, America's Next Top Model, "The Girl Who Is Afraid of Heights," original airdate 17 October 2007 If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.  ~Thomas Alva Edison Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.  ~Max L. Forman Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.  ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604 The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.  ~Ellen Goodman I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate.  It was not a matter of bad or good luck.  When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.  ~Anaïs Nin Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.  ~William Hazlitt Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.  ~Ram Dass Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.  ~Michel de Montaigne If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits.  ~Don Ward It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence. ~Paula Cole, "Me," This Fire The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.  ~Andrew Carnegie Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.  ~From Cool Runnings Don't let anyone steal your dream.  It's your dream, not theirs.  ~Dan Zadra If I am not for myself, who will be?  ~Pirke Avoth All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.  ~Charles Dickens We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Self-love seems so often unrequited.  ~Anthony Powell Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.  ~Henry David Thoreau There are offences given and offences not given but taken.  ~Izaak Walton Do not doubt the goodness in you.  It is inappropriate.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.  ~John Powell [S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.... ~Veronica Shoffstall, "After a While," as posted in Dear Abby It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.  ~Epicurus If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.  ~Nicholas de Chamfort I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.  ~Louisa May Alcott How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Every day we slaughter our finest impulses.  That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.  Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.  We all derive from the same source.  There is no mystery about the origin of things.  We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there.  ~Henry Miller, Sexus Pay no attention to what the critics say.  A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.  ~Jean Sibelius Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.  ~African Proverb The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.  ~Author Unknown Be proud to wear you.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com Be humble, for you are made of dung. Be noble, for you are made of stars. ~Serbian Saying Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.  ~Thomas à Kempis Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.  ~André Dubus Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.  ~Francis Bacon God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.  ~Author Unknown We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.  ~Olin Miller As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.  ~Lou Holtz and John Heisler, The Fighting Spirit [Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.  ~George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921 Mediocrity is a hand-rail.  ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Mes pensées All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present.  "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows."  "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."  ~Author Unknown The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.  ~Sonya Friedman We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree - deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals.  ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs.  Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.  ~E.F. Schumacher Many men are like unto sausages:  Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.  ~Alexi Konstantinovich Tolstoy Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. ~Karen Ravn Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.  We are all meant to shine, as children do.  We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.  ~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992 (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech) Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.  ~Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961

Computers Quotes

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.  ~Doug Larson


If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees.  That'll do them in.  ~Author Unknown


The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.  ~Author Unknown


Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.  ~Author Unknown


To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.  ~Bill Vaughan, 1969 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)


Treat your password like your toothbrush.  Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.  ~Clifford Stoll


User, n.  The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."  ~Dave Barry


Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.  ~Edsger W. Dijkstra


Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.  ~Joseph Campbell


Computing is not about computers any more.  It is about living.  ~Nicholas Negroponte


Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
~David Dixon, 1998, winning entry of the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com


Computers, huh?  I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys.  ~From the television show King of Queens, spoken by the character Doug Heffernan


After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.  ~John Pierce


Hardware:  where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is.  Software:  where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.  ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top


But they are useless.  They can only give you answers.  ~Pablo Picasso, about computers


Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.  ~Author Unknown


Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
~Suzie Wagner, 1998, honorable mention in the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com


As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke.  It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.  ~Scott Adams ("Dogbert")


If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.  ~Scott Adams


Database:  the information you lose when your memory crashes.  ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top


A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.  ~Mitch Ratcliffe


Back up my hard drive?  How do I put it in reverse?  ~Author Unknown


Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.  ~Andy Rooney


Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it.  ~Author Unknown


Hardware:  the parts of a computer that can be kicked.  ~Jeff Pesis


I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.  ~Author Unknown


I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.  ~Author Unknown


Spreadsheet:  a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.  ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top


Don't explain computers to laymen.  Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.  ~Robert A. Heinlein


If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.  ~One of Murphy's Laws of Technology


A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.  ~Author Unknown

If it draws blood, it's hardware.  ~Author Unknown


In God we trust, all others we virus scan.  ~Author Unknown


It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy.  Computers have to become human-literate.  ~Nicholas P. Negroponte


Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything.  ~Garrett Hazel, "Help Desk Blues," 2002


A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.  ~Joseph Weizenbaum


Jesus saves!  The rest of us better make backups.  ~Author Unknown


Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.  ~John F. Kennedy


RAM disk is not an installation procedure.  ~Author Unknown


The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.  ~Author Unknown


The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. ~Marcus Dolengo


I had a life once. Now I have a computer. ~Author Unknown


The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little. ~Eric Porterfield


Industry executives and analysts often mistakenly talk about strategy as if it were some kind of chess match.  But in chess, you have just two opponents, each with identical resources, and with luck playing a minimal role.  The real world is much more like a poker game, with multiple players trying to make the best of whatever hand fortune has dealt them.  In our industry, Bill Gates owns the table until someone proves otherwise.  ~David Moschella


Do files get embarrassed when they're unzipped?  ~Author Unknown


What do you call a doctor that fixes websites?  A URLologist.  ~Author Unknown


Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
~Margaret Segall, 1998, honorable mention in the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com


The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.  ~Edsger W. Dijkstra


The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.  ~Sydney J. Harris


There are 10 types of people in this world:  those who understand binary and those who don't.  ~Author Unknown


There are three kinds of death in this world.  There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.  ~Guy Almes


Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.  ~Dolly Parton


Computers are like air conditioners.  They work fine until you start opening windows.  ~Author Unknown


Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
~Peter Rothman, 1998, honorable mention in the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com


Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven.  I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.  ~Bill Gates


There are two major products that came out of Berkeley:  LSD and UNIX.  We do not believe this to be a coincidence.  ~Jeremy S. Anderson


My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.  ~Author Unknown


Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
~David Ansel, 1998, honorable mention in the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com


There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about.  It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work.  The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!  ~Richard P. Feynman


There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.  ~J.H. Goldfuss


Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. ~Author Unknown


All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. ~Isaac Asimov


I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry


A user and his leisure time are soon parted.  ~Author Unknown


Apathy Error:  Don't bother striking any key.  ~Author Unknown


At least my pencil never crashes!  ~Author Unknown


There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge
~Rahul Sonnad, 1998, honorable mention in the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com


DOS computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide.  Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.  ~Author Unknown


Home is where you hang your @.  ~Author Unknown


To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
~Brian M. Porter, 1998, honorable mention in the Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge by Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau, sponsored by Salon.com


I wish life had an Undo function.  ~Author Unknown


In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.  ~Author Unknown


If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashes... oh, wait a minute, he already does.  ~Author Unknown


In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks.  Now they're knocking off servers.  ~Richard Power


Mac users swear by their computers.  PC users swear at their computers.  ~Author Unknown


I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."  ~Douglas Adams


Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.  ~Werner von Braun


Microsoft, where quality is job 1.1.  ~Author Unknown


Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.  ~Martin Reiser, quoted by Nicklaus Wirth, 1995, which spawned "Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away," author unknown, referring to CEOs of Intel and Microsoft


Some people can hack it, others can't.  ~Author Unknown


The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!  ~Richard Feynman


Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.  ~Doug Gwyn


Unix is simple.  It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.  ~Dennis Ritchie


Unix never says "please."  ~Rob Pike


The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself.  And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.  ~Author Unknown


Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.  ~Alan Turing, about computers


What boots up must come down.  ~Author Unknown


Windows is just DOS in drag.  ~Author Unknown


Computers must be female.  No one but the creator understands their internal logic.  The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.  The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you."  Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval.  As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.  ~Author Unknown


Computers must be male.  As soon as you commit to one you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.  In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.  Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the day.  ~Author Unknown