“Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again. Though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion”

— Dylan Thomas

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

— Gandalf

“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere.”

— Dom Cobb

“Your move, chief”

— Sean Maguire

“The very things that held ya down are gonna carry ya up and up and up!”

— Timothy Q. Mouse

“But you’re wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God’s placed it all around us. It’s in everything. It’s in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at those things”

— Christopher McCandless

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

— Thorin Oakenshield

“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all”

— Jack Sparrow

“The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse”

— Walt Whitman

“Aristotle be damned!

By Zeus and all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? Better than you really are! In you and those like you is this!

What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. It’s your contempt for a world far older than ours!”

— Alexander the Great

“I cannot waste time with these classes and these books, memorizing the weaker assumptions of lesser mortals! I need to look through to the governing dynamics, find a truly original idea. That’s the only way I’ll ever distinguish myself. It’s the only way that I’ll ever… matter”

— John Nash

“This is paradise, I’m tellin’ ya. This town like a great big pussy just waiting to get fucked.”

— Tony Montana

“Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.”

”I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!”

— Michael Corleone

“Everybody’s talking at me
Can’t hear a word they’re saying
Only the echoes of my mind…
I’m going where the sun keeps shining
Through the pouring rain”

— Frederick Neil

“You’re tearing me apart!”

— Jim Stark

“Good morning, Vietnam!”

— Adrian Cronauer

“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked…

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?”

— Kahlil Gibran

“The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club!”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“When I introduce you, I’m gonna say, ‘This is a friend of mine.’ That means you’re a connected guy. Now if I said instead, ‘this is a friend of ours,’ that would mean you a made guy. Capiche?”

— Lefty Ruggiero

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— Albus Dumbledore

“What’s this for? For bein’ an honest cop? Hmm? Or for being stupid enough to get shot in the face? You tell them that they can shove it.”

— Frank Serpico

“Two little mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned, but the second mouse, he struggled so hard that he eventually churned that cream into butter and he walked out. Amen.”

— Frank Abagnale, Jr.

“There’s a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, ‘how wonderful. The boy got a horse’ And the Zen master says, ‘we’ll see.’ Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, ‘How terrible.’ And the Zen master says, ‘We’ll see.’ Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can’t cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, ‘How wonderful’.”

”Now the Zen master says, ‘We’ll see.’”

— Gust Avrakotos & Charlie Wilson

“As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a gangster.”

— Henry Hill

“You wonder why fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500? Because they’re sheep, and sheep get slaughtered. I’ve been in this business since ‘69. These Harvard types don’t add up to dogshit. Give me guys that are poor, smart, and hungry, and no feelings. You lose a few, but you keep fighting, and if you need a friend, get a dog. It’s trench warfare out there, pal.”

— Gordon Gekko