Quote Happy Biography
source link (google.com.pk)Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."
Sad, because we all know this feeling. Most of us have experienced being abandoned (one way or the other) by loved ones. It's an overpowering emotion, that consumes and fills us.
Happy, because it shows a different external perspective of what we are going through. Like everything. This will pass. It is time to move on and focus on YOUR life and not someone elses. It is time to live in the present and look forward to the future, rather than living in the past and regretting the present.
Edit: Words and stuff.
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[–]Aktta 345 points 3 months ago*
This poem by Shel Silverstein:
"A spider lives inside my head
Who weaves a strange and wondrous web
Of silken threads and silver strings
To catch all sorts of flying things,
Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles
And specks of dried-up tears,
And dust of dreams that catch and cling
For years and years and years...”
Edit: This too "How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing buy sweet dreams" -Bram Stoker, Dracula.
It's not particularly happy but I like it a lot and it find it relateable...even if I'm not a vampire.
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[–]OneLifeLiveIt 3213 points 3 months ago
Isn't it funny, how day by day nothing changes but, when we look back, everything is different.
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[–]addie231097[S] 1778 points 3 months ago
This is the quote I was thinking of when I asked the question. Well done!
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[–]OneLifeLiveIt 2221 points 3 months ago
What do I win?
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[–]MilkasaurusRex 1206 points 3 months ago
An upvote. Congrats.
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[–]StarwarsIndianajones 527 points 3 months ago
I already have one of those. What am I supposed to do with two??
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[–]Velorium_Camper 979 points 3 months ago
Rub them on your body in a sexual manner.
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[–]ammofortherank 211 points 3 months ago
I once did shrooms and a friend recorded me saying "Is today all the same or is today all different?" I probably said it a million times, but it blew my mind.
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[–]IAMYourReason 2469 points 3 months ago*
"Sometimes I can't stand talking to you. You make me the saddest of all of them, because you used to make me the happiest, I suppose." -- A very depressed friend of mine after moving away.
Edit: Thank you, stranger.
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[–]CRXW 349 points 3 months ago
Whatever happened to him/her?
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[–]IAMYourReason 765 points 3 months ago
This was only like, six months ago. Basically, she was an out-of-state boarding student at my high school and we were very close friends. After graduation she and her parents moved out of the US. She has had a hard time adjusting to the new life, so we were just talking a couple of days ago and she dropped that one and I just kind of had to take a break and evaluate my own existence, you know.
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[–]CRXW 605 points 3 months ago
I do know. I've been on both ends. Sometimes you wish you could forget the happy times. Remembering them is the most painful of all, because it comes at the cost of knowing they're all over. It's rough. I hope she'll pull through.
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[–]percival__winbourne 604 points 3 months ago
Sometimes you wish you could forget the happy times. Remembering them is the most painful of all, because it comes at the cost of knowing they're all over.
And that right there is my answer to the question at the top of this thread.
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[–]iJustObserve 1115 points 3 months ago*
"The world isn't all butterflies and rainbows, sure, but there's butterflies and rainbows in it" - /u/deceitfulmermaid
Edit: Gave credit to the user
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[–]dancing-turtle 175 points 3 months ago
I LOVE this quote, so I went to google it to see if I could figure out who "Unknown" is. Turns out it was written last month by /u/deceitfulmermaid here on reddit, unless there's some previous use of it I couldn't find. :)
I think I'm going to enjoy quoting a mermaid in the future about rainbows and butterflies.
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[–]not_real_crab 2941 points 3 months ago*
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." EDIT:Wow thanks for the gold! Also, u/Magic_Rat has pointed out to me that it's not actually A.A. Milne that said this, though it is definitely still a nice quote.
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[–]Kartinka 1489 points 3 months ago*
"Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color."
-W.S. Merwin, "Separation"
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[–]way_fairer 333 points 3 months ago
It's W.S. Merwin. Here's another of his:
...what we are looking for
In each other
Is each other,
The stars at noon,
While the light worships its blind god.
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[–]dangerwolf1 158 points 3 months ago
I think a good majority of Milne quotes give this reaction.
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[–]not_real_crab 617 points 3 months ago
I'm going to have to agree with you: “If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
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[–]Arashmickey 30 points 3 months ago
Reminds me:
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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
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[–]belleand 1102 points 3 months ago
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” — The Little Prince
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[–]coffeemakesmecrap 2128 points 3 months ago*
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them"
-Andy Bernard
-Michael Scott
Der Der Deh Doo.
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[–]paprikapants 280 points 3 months ago
When I was a younger teen I had two incredibly amazing best friends and I realized that not everyone was so lucky and knew those 'good ol' days' may not last. We grew up, grew apart, moved-- theyre a couple of nutty strangers now, but I love them the same and only hope to get so lucky again.
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[–]ChiliChowder 310 points 3 months ago
You just reminded me of the last moment in Stand By Me, when grown up Gordie types this line:
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?
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[–]Mr_Acrid 32 points 3 months ago
Sometimes you never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory. - Dr. Seuss
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[–]thatsmytyan 1179 points 3 months ago
"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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[–]kjata 301 points 3 months ago
It's a snake, not a hat, dammit.
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[–]DemonEggy 55 points 3 months ago
Desine moi un mouton....
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[–]Maklemoomilk 1996 points 3 months ago
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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[–]TheColorOfStupid 446 points 3 months ago
Is this actually by Lincoln?
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[–]Maklemoomilk 1162 points 3 months ago
Probably
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[–]IBeJizzin 293 points 3 months ago
At least you're honest
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[–]Mctaylor42 398 points 3 months ago
"Every quote on the internet is always true." ―George Washington
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[–]wallencis 536 points 3 months ago
"Mid or feed" - Albert Eintstein
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[–]Time_for_Stories 64 points 3 months ago
"Money in the bank, pimpin ain't easy." - Obama
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[–][deleted] 1821 points 3 months ago
I was happy here
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[–]RBubbaMagillicutty 499 points 3 months ago
This one is brutal.
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[–]jeffaloysius 337 points 3 months ago
When we were meeting with the psychiatrist who was evaluating my Dad before admitting him to Nursing Home care (due to his advanced dementia), as I was thinking that he (my Dad) no longer existed, and that the man I had my arm around was a different almost non-existent person, the MD asked my Dad about his father. No one else heard him mutter "I had a father once...but only for a little while. Then he was gone."
His Dad had died of TB when my Dad was 6. Now here he was, over 80.
I felt the same exact way. Then on the way home, that song "Cat's in the cradle" came on and I balled like a little girl.
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[–]WotWU 138 points 3 months ago
Freud said depression, in some ways, is the result of correctly perceiving the world around you. How happy we were when we had no idea what was going on.
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[–]MtNoon 597 points 3 months ago
“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” - Brian Jacques, Taggerung
I find it unusually sad and comforting at the same time.
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[–]Lord_of_Aces 68 points 3 months ago
Damn. I need to read those again.
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[–]Koyoteelaughter 2381 points 3 months ago
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
-Steinbeck
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[–]BleakGod 868 points 3 months ago
If I'm being honest, my eyes tricked me and I thought you credited Stevie Wonder. I had fun with that for a second.
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[–]Koyoteelaughter 116 points 3 months ago
Find joy where you can
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[–]Maduxx33 116 points 3 months ago
" Gotta have opposites dark and light, light and dark in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in a while so you know when the good times come. I’m waiting on the good times now."
-Bob Ross
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[–]the_mandalor 1589 points 3 months ago
Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence, no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.
-House of Leaves
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[–]defimeshun 271 points 3 months ago
House of Leaves was easily the most terrifying and confusing book I have ever read. I would definitely recommend it to anybody who hasn't read it.
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[–]AsianAbrasion 3042 points 3 months ago
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in" -Greek proverb
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[–]DisgruntledTomato 590 points 3 months ago
I'm sorta guessing he enjoyed gardening anyway, so part of the enjoyment was in planting that seed - Karl Pilkington
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[–]robertgraham 98 points 3 months ago
If he's lucky, fella next door might've done the same.
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[–]Genuine_Luck 1118 points 3 months ago
This quote really makes me hate the whole mindset behind our current Political and Corporate systems... Make the quick buck now at the expense of future generations...
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[–]DownvoterAccount 655 points 3 months ago
Don't worry, the world's always been like that.
And yet we're still here.
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[–]RBubbaMagillicutty 415 points 3 months ago
It's almost like in ancient Greek times, someone had to make a saying to remind people of how to behave...
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[–]V171 966 points 3 months ago
None of these are making me happy. All of them are only making me sad. You're all liars.
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[–]addie231097[S] 383 points 3 months ago
80% sad 20% happy
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[–]Lord_of_Aces 29 points 3 months ago
I think most of these are less of a happy/sad dichotomy and more of a mix of sorrow and hope.
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[–]foreverxxxx1 1253 points 3 months ago*
"My son made his mother cry, but saved hundreds of mothers from crying for their children," Mujahid Ali, Aitzaz's father is quoted as saying.
From this article: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25663992
EDIT: This is my highest rated comment. I only want to say that I'm glad so many people were able to learn about this story. I hope you all gain inspiration from the strength of the young man and from his family.
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[–]Returning_Addict 156 points 3 months ago
It's staggering to imagine the courage that boy had.
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[–]mithril_mayhem 75 points 3 months ago
That was beautiful, it explains where Aitzaz got his heart from.
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[–]DSice16[đ°] 2572 points 3 months ago
Not mine, copied from another thread
My only brother, older by 2 years, was terminally ill with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy. I got a call from my mother at 5am and she only needed to say three words to me.. "It's your brother". I threw some clothes on and sped to their house. He was clearly on his way out. I gathered myself, laid with him and did my best to comfort him. As he began to slip away, my brother and best friend, who had been wheelchair bound since he was 8 years old, and was then 25, said to me the most beautiful and haunting words I will ever hear.. "I'm running so fast"
Source
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[–]nil_obstat 757 points 3 months ago
chills
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[–]beej_ 353 points 3 months ago
I didn't expect to get chills because I read "chills" before the story. Still undeniable chills.
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[–]AFarewellToScott 223 points 3 months ago
This moves me.
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[–]The83rdWonder 320 points 3 months ago
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist in this moment - One Hundred Years of Solitude
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[–]phr4Kture 214 points 3 months ago
"I was beginning to think you'd never amount to anything." -Dad
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[–]Rentaka 1278 points 3 months ago
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not here; I did not die.
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye.
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[–]valueproposition 61 points 3 months ago
My mother died of a heart condition. She'd been struggling for years. After she passed, I found this quote on a piece of paper she used as a book mark.
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[–]lacrimaeveneris 26 points 3 months ago
Somehow that makes it perfect... the physical manifestation of the concept of the poem.
I am sorry for your loss.
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[–]christyannebee 358 points 3 months ago
I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live.
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[–]SpaceMonkey_28 23 points 3 months ago
Queens of the Stone Age- Go With The Flow. I love that song and love that lyric.
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[–]NickOfTheWorld 193 points 3 months ago
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."-A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
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[–]TheVegetaMonologues 90 points 3 months ago
"The deeper sorrow carves into your heart, the more joy it can hold." -- Kahlil Gibran
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[–]Margamel 609 points 3 months ago
"They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"
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[–]KM-Flapjack 566 points 3 months ago*
Whatever you do in life will be insignificant. But it is very important that you do it. -Gandhi
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[–]brickbeard77 504 points 3 months ago*
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost
Edit: Thank you good sir or madam.
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[–]chrosly 1716 points 3 months ago
Life is never so bad that it can't get worse. -Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
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[–]addie231097[S] 758 points 3 months ago
I don't know about you but this doesn't make me feel happy at all
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[–]Fudgemanners 348 points 3 months ago
It's become my motto. Nothing is ever as bad as it could have been.
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[–]BoozeoisPig 287 points 3 months ago
Don't worry, life is never so awesome that it can't get better, too.
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[–]yetkwai 78 points 3 months ago
""I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable - except for having just jumped." - Ken Baldwin, after jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
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[–]FlyingChange 286 points 3 months ago
“It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.” ― Sophie Scholl
I like her spirit and optimism in the face of tyranny. I don't like the fact that she died. I'd like to think I'd be able to carry myself as she did before my execution.
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[–]BromeoAndCooliet 269 points 3 months ago
Do the full quote!
"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause?
Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go."
Last words before her execution in 1943.
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[–]PingPongSensation 95 points 3 months ago
Tell the whole story!
"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
^ Her words in court, earlier that year.
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[–]Daxl 146 points 3 months ago
I read a quote from a late-stage Aids patient once. His last words were: 'Well, this should be interesting'.
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[–]kinsey3 24 points 3 months ago
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
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[–]GalacticKirby 1127 points 3 months ago
"When you do things right, people wont be sure you've done anything at all." -God, Futurama
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[–]AllSurfingEndsInCats 62 points 3 months ago
This is my SOP. If I've done my job right no one should notice that there was anything to be done. The more effortless it appears the more satisfaction I feel.
Can see how this might be bittersweet if you need appreciation and praise.
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[–]Lidodido 72 points 3 months ago
I'm going to take a wild guess that you work with IT?
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[–]artforoxygen 65 points 3 months ago
"I go to seek a Great Perhaps" - François Rabelais on his death bed.
I find it filled with so much hope for what can happen, and so much sadness for the "what could have beens" in life.
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[–]Fight_the_fairies 678 points 3 months ago
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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[–]hotrodserling 262 points 3 months ago
"All was well." So bittersweet.
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[–]Fight_the_fairies 144 points 3 months ago
I immediately cried when I finished the last book. And I'm not even sorry.
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[–]NoDoThis 70 points 3 months ago
I still do, every time I read it. Also teared up reading the post of it. I'm a weepy chump.
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[–]4th_Account_ 46 points 3 months ago
"Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living. Above all, pity those who live without love." This was my favourite from the series
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[–]Rebel_Born 996 points 3 months ago
The two most important days in your life is the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
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[–]illegalwaffles 510 points 3 months ago
Probably the lazy inspector at the condom factory.
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[–]TheDaltonXP 669 points 3 months ago*
"You could be happy, I hope you are, you made me happier than I've been by far"
Only snow patrol song I ever liked. Always reminds me of my ex girlfriend, fondly, but I miss her.
Edit: gold! Thank you it means a lot!
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[–]toxicbox 97 points 3 months ago
I feel the same way about my ex. I was sad to see them go, but I hope they're happier now.
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[–]poker_girl 1235 points 3 months ago
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened ~ Dr. Seuss
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[–]the_patelinator 142 points 3 months ago
It's just that I don't want to even be in the situation where I'd have to tell myself this... whatever that beautiful thing is - I want it to last forever
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[–]addie231097[S] 237 points 3 months ago
But sometimes beautiful things have to end before they become no longer beautiful.
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[–]crispychicken49 53 points 3 months ago
"Stay gold ponyboy."
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[–]TheColorOfStupid 98 points 3 months ago
I associate this quote with hitler because of reddit.
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[–]scotigirl 1294 points 3 months ago
I know it's cliche, but from Perks of Being a Wallflower.
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
I thought it was really stupid until I started looking around at various relationships and really saw how true it was.
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[–]IAMYourReason 659 points 3 months ago
That book (and excellent film adaptation) had some awesome quotes.
“This moment will just be another story someday.”
“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
A masterclass of writing.
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[–]Ahsinoei 31 points 3 months ago
It's a brilliant book. Yet to see the film but it's been highly recommended to me.
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[–]IAMYourReason 41 points 3 months ago
The film adaptation is very fun and intelligent as well and it has a very indie feel to it with a high quality of production. Very powerful visual imagery to accompany the already heavy narrative. I highly recommend both the movie and the book to my friends.
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[–]bigmac_zedong 3363 points 3 months ago*
When you're happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you're sad, you understand the lyrics.
-Frank Ocean
EDIT: Much thanks, fellow redditor.
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[–]SweatyCoffee 368 points 3 months ago
Welp, time to put on Channel Orange.
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[–]mattbryce2000 1297 points 3 months ago
True. Listen to Hey Ya while sad. Not a happy song.
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[–]Ohdomino 1183 points 3 months ago
"Yall don't hear me, you just want to dance."
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[–]Velorium_Camper 762 points 3 months ago
"What's cooler than being cool? ice cold "
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[–]Jedesikus 617 points 3 months ago
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[–]gummywormsyum 457 points 3 months ago
why you are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here
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[–]dongbeinanren 303 points 3 months ago
"If what they say is 'nothing lasts forever', then what makes love the exception?"
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[–]addie231097[S] 331 points 3 months ago
Wow I've never thought of that song like that before.. :(
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[–]no_rush 470 points 3 months ago
There is a pretty good acoustic version of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf339KTTdUA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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[–]KonnieTheBlack 50 points 3 months ago
My god that woman has a beautiful voice
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[–]toxicbox 323 points 3 months ago
They draw you in with the deceivingly catchy tune and then smack you in the face with depressing lyrics.
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[–]Steve_the_Scout 168 points 3 months ago
Bittersweet Symphony... it's in the title.
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[–]AshesEleven 18 points 3 months ago
This one is so true.
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[–]garfunkelle 1269 points 3 months ago
This too shall pass
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[–]way_fairer 407 points 3 months ago
:):
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[–]TeamSilverSnakes 557 points 3 months ago
you are HIV Aladeen
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[–]marajdb 122 points 3 months ago
:)
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[–]frostypillow 121 points 3 months ago
:(
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[–]Eurylokhos 58 points 3 months ago
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. - Marcus Aurelius
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[–]Sforlisp 57 points 3 months ago
I could have told you Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
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[–]morissettemaiden 112 points 3 months ago
"When I die, my atoms will come undone; I'll be space dust, once again. The wind will carry me; scatter me everywhere like dandelions in springtime. I'll visit worlds and alien moons; it'll be so damn poetic - until I land on your sandwich."
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[–]JeebusLovesMurica 1791 points 3 months ago
I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a, beautiful sadness. I guess that sounds stupid.
Butters on South Park
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[–]cat_penis 1041 points 3 months ago
Also Chef's speech about god:
"Stan, sometimes God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?"
Stan : "But then, why does God give us anything to start with?"
Chef : "Well, look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, then you would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power."
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[–]toxicbox 442 points 3 months ago
Jeez, Chef's version of God sounds like a giant asshole.
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[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 581 points 3 months ago
Or as Stewie says about the Old Testament: "I love this 'God' character; he's so deliciously evil."
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[–]barbie_trap_house 407 points 3 months ago
Chuck Palahniuk — 'You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.'
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[–]petimer 308 points 3 months ago
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
From Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
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[–]Bamorsha 138 points 3 months ago
"See you Space Cowboy"
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[–]PubicAdmiral 741 points 3 months ago
You're special just like everyone else.
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[–]OMGitsDSypl 320 points 3 months ago
"That's just another way of saying no one is."
-Dash.
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[–]awhiskeyshot 231 points 3 months ago
“People aren’t against you; they are for themselves."
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[–]throwawayy5532 80 points 3 months ago
The very end of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" always makes me do that happy tear thing.
"She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see."
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[–]do_you_suck_dick 211 points 3 months ago
Kind of a long one.
“When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — & ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage & never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief & precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive & we were together was miraculous — not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous & so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space & the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me & it’s much more meaningful…
The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.“
– Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan
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[–]Nixnac 2899 points 3 months ago
"You have the biggest dick out of all your friends" -My girlfriend
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[–]robbiethedarling 1213 points 3 months ago
Jesus Christ, man.
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[–]Lachshmock 802 points 3 months ago
Yeah I hear Jesus was pretty hung
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[–]Chegism 1189 points 3 months ago
Nailed it.
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[–]HeyMang 553 points 3 months ago
"You have the biggest dick out of all his friends" -Your mom
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[–]thirdcharm 109 points 3 months ago
C.S.Lewis, To love at all
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[–]x_Juan9_x 35 points 3 months ago
"Tis a Fearful Thing. It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, hope, dream: to be"
Judah Halevi
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[–]_Britzilla_ 642 points 3 months ago
So it goes. - Kurt V.
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[–]rockmann1997 359 points 3 months ago
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. ~ SlaughterHouse- Five
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[–]pornjesus 104 points 3 months ago
Po-tee-weet?
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[–]kingofthedesert 91 points 3 months ago
So it goes. - Kurt V.
It's like a kick to the stomach to read that. I love Vonnegut and I think to myself "So it goes" when something bad happens. Or something good.
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[–]thirdcharm 25 points 3 months ago
And so on.
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[–]CallMeAnEngineer 603 points 3 months ago
"Otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart. They also kill and rape infant seals."
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[–]SchpartyOn 605 points 3 months ago
Nelson Mandela's last words.
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[–]silaciouskrumb 575 points 3 months ago
According to the sign language guy
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[–]Steelle88 149 points 3 months ago
"Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we’d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it." -Ray Kurzweil
I prefer the full passage where he summarizes the Twilight Zone episode that he uses as an analogy.
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[–]Mawwie 359 points 3 months ago
You'd stop caring about what people thought about you if you realized how little they actually do.
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[–]jalapeno_jelly 181 points 3 months ago
Actual quote: “You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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[–]gokism 141 points 3 months ago
Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee...
Peart.
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[–]lamed-vov 31 points 3 months ago
"The mark of a mature man is a certain scar he bears: the memory of a perfect woman never won, or of a once-true love forever lost. However much he may love you, he is only here because she is not."
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[–]WhatIsRedditGold 165 points 3 months ago
"If there is a God, he will have to beg for my forgiveness." --Carved into a concentration camp cell by a Jewish prisoner.
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[–]Jimming 62 points 3 months ago
“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.” - Terry Pratchett
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[–]Africa_versus_NASA 81 points 3 months ago
St. Augustine:
"My soul is like a house, small for You to enter, but I pray You to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that You will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not hide. But who is to rid it of these things? There is no one but You to whom I can say: if I have sinned unwittingly, do You absolve me? Keep me ever Your own servant, far from pride."
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[–]Reddit_is_my_Home 311 points 3 months ago
"A man dies twice in his life. Once, when he breathes his final breath. And again when his name is spoken for the last time."
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[–]PM_ME_UR_BOOTS_GURL 31 points 3 months ago
This is far from happy...
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[–]CharlieWhizkey 214 points 3 months ago
I'm a leaf on the wind
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[–]n3rdychick 45 points 3 months ago
Watch how I.. sob.. soar
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[–]iucundus_acerbus 168 points 3 months ago
Butters: I love life.
Stan: Huh? But you just got dumped.
Butters: Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feeling is like a, beautiful sadness. I guess that sounds stupid. - South Park
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[–]Kco1r3h5 153 points 3 months ago
This whole speech
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[–]paulus1978 25 points 3 months ago
This bitter-sweet quote always reminds me of the girl who had to leave me behind. I didn't want her to go, but I knew her life would be better if she did, regardless of the loss I would feel, there was happiness inside me for the good that was to come in her life.
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
from Shawshank redemption, spoken by Morgan Freeman.
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[–]tozne 129 points 3 months ago
"In the long run, we are all dead" - John Maynard Keynes
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[–]krabbby 82 points 3 months ago
Not me. I decided that i wont die.
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[–]tozne 50 points 3 months ago
You must be in the classical school.
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"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
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[–]mtregan 51 points 3 months ago
make friends with pain and you'll never be alone.
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[–]9me123 43 points 3 months ago
You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I!
(This may not be the best example, as I didn't have a good enough "connection" with that Doctor.)
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[–]ItsTheDC 80 points 3 months ago
"Nobody cares."
A couple different ways to interpret that one.
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[–]addie231097[S] 131 points 3 months ago
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have." -Margaret Mead
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[–]dutchposer 231 points 3 months ago
Here lies Dobby, a Free Elf
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[–]Really_Bad_Sketch 149 points 3 months ago
This is kinda true.
http://imgur.com/eIgJu5q
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[–]addie231097[S] 26 points 3 months ago
It's kind of hopeful in a weird way
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[–]dreed18 18 points 3 months ago
A quote from, oddly enough, the show Sleepy Hollow, "We never, really, bury the dead. We will always carry them with us. That's the price of living".
A coworker of a friend of mine died today in a car crash, and the quote came to mind.
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[–]Efilwen 18 points 3 months ago
Dita Von Teese once said, "You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches."
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[–]gufoozi14 362 points 3 months ago
sonder
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[–]sherlip 155 points 3 months ago
We're all NPCs!
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[–]MacheteGuy 64 points 3 months ago
Maybe you are.
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[–]addie231097[S] 64 points 3 months ago
I love it. It makes me feel so small and unimportant yet it's satisfying in some way.
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[–]ryfleman1992 45 points 3 months ago
For me it makes me realize that not only am I important but everyone else is as well.
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[–]Steve_the_Scout 62 points 3 months ago
IIRC that word is entirely made up by some Tumblr. Kind of cool how it's actually spread and been used.
The closest you might get is sönder, but its meaning is almost the opposite of this English version.
Makes you wonder how elastic our language is that a word like that can just slip in without any etymology and yet it still gets used and gains meaning.
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[–]qawsed1515 49 points 3 months ago
I am a leaf on the wind watch how I soar
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[–]beehivesafety 18 points 3 months ago
Not a quote, but a poem by R S Thomas after the death of his wife who had been with for half a century:
A Marriage
We met under a shower of bird-notes. Fifty years passed, love's moment in a world in servitude to time. She was young; I kissed with my eyes closed and opened them on her wrinkles. 'Come,' said death, choosing her as his partner for the last dance. And she, who in life had done everything with a bird's grace, opened her bill now for the shedding of one sigh no heavier than a feather.
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[–]jonnychemica1 82 points 3 months ago
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I' m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein
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[–]Rhllor_Lordoflight 33 points 3 months ago
Two things are infinite: The universe and Zubats in Dark Cave; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein
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[–]iDooby 17 points 3 months ago
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. -Mark Twain
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[–]8daysuntiltheweekend 69 points 3 months ago
If you really get to thinking about this classic quote/saying, it's pretty happy/sad.
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at al
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