Absurdistan Quotes

#1. When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

Gayle Forman

#2. Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.

J.A. Belfield

#3. Freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

Gary Shteyngart

#4. It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

John L. Phillips

#5. To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.

Ian McLeod

#7. In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

Horace

#8. One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

Darmie Orem

#9. We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

Michael Stipe

#10. Give me solitude - give me Nature - give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!

Walt Whitman

#11. We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher