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Welcome to r/Quotes

Share your favorite quotes.

Current quotes, historic quotes, movie quotes, song lyric quotes, game quotes, book quotes, tv quotes or just your own personal gem of wisdom.

Posting guidelines:

  • Please post the full quote in the title along with the origin (if you can). Try not to post only a quote description or just the origin of the quote.

  • Images with quotes are allowed as links in the text box but please still post the full quote and origin in the title (if you can).

  • Lists of quotes are allowed as comments.

  • Questions about quotes or requests seeking help with specific quotes are also welcome.

  • Looking for a quote source? Wikiquote

  • Is it authentic? Quote Investigator

  • Have fun!

Bonus - Gandhi never said that:

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/13/stages

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/27/eye-for-eye-blind

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/23/be-change

Additional references: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Misattributed

https://gizmodo.com/7-gandhi-quotes-that-are-totally-fake-1716503435

https://quoteinvestigator.com/category/mohandas-gandhi/

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” - Oscar Wilde.

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2024/11/02
08:05 UTC

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"Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same." ― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

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2024/11/02
05:53 UTC

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"3 Months to make a pair of trousers and 6 days to make the world lookat the trousers and look at the world" - Samuel Beckett

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2024/11/02
05:00 UTC

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"Never break the silence if not to improve it" Ludwig Van Beethoven

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2024/11/02
04:51 UTC

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"I forgot that I can be okay on my own; that I can still be happy on my own. I forgot that sometimes we have to say goodbye to something good and wait patiently for something better.” ~ Colleen George (Even though we were temporary, you were still so special to me)

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2024/11/02
04:43 UTC

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"Sadness is a silent teacher..."

I saw this on a lofi channel I listen to

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2024/11/02
04:36 UTC

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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves".-Carl Jung

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2024/11/02
02:59 UTC

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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. - August Wilson

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2024/11/02
02:41 UTC

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Fire is like hope. Both can light up with interacting with each other water is like strugle. Its the luquid that makes the lights out

I did not explained it point for point because then the quote would be too long. There are many questions i asked to my self and i know that i will see some of these as an response.

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2024/11/02
02:00 UTC

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"Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." -Rudyard Kipling

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2024/11/01
22:39 UTC

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Trying to find a quote

I dont actually remember the full thing, it began with something like "I think one day I will be with you--" "I think I will be joining you soon--" "I think that if I reach out I can--" It had something to do with bodies I believe? I recall a (decently known or well known) rapper/singer wore it on their shirt, it was in black text and a white shirt It recently popped back into my head, i dont remember it. I just REALLY want to find it. I'm aware its a horrible description of what it could even start with, please just spitball to me what you think it could maybe be since my details could be wrong

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2024/11/01
21:30 UTC

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Russian literature is one of the hidden gems

Russian literature is renowned for its profound insights into the human condition. Here are some iconic quotes:

Tolstoy

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Anna Karenina "The only thing that I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I was inclined to be a writer." - A Confession

Dostoevsky

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for." - The Brothers Karamazov "Beauty will save the world." - The Idiot

Chekhov

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - The Lady with the Dog "Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out." - The Seagull

Gogol

"It's no advantage to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth if you're going to spend your whole life sucking on it." - Dead Souls "There is no tragedy in being unhappy; the tragedy lies in being unwilling to change."

Vladimir Nabokov: "The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." - Speak, Memory Boris Pasternak: "No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing." - Doctor Zhivago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "You should never be ashamed of your family, because they are your blood." - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The one that I found absolutely amusing Maxim Gorky "One has to be a God to forgive what you have done"- The lower depths

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2024/11/01
19:46 UTC

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"Ability without ambition is like kindling wood without the spark." - Anonymous

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2024/11/01
19:44 UTC

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"Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard It'll leave you physically, mentally and emotionally scarred" - 50 Cent

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2024/11/01
19:08 UTC

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"What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet." - Anne Frank

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2024/11/01
16:23 UTC

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Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence. - Nick Saban

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2024/11/01
15:33 UTC

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Searching for quote about nature and the unnatural

Maybe someone can help me with this. I've tried googling and Wikiquotes, but no luck.

I'm trying to find a specific quote that I came across once in the past. The author was saying basically that nothing is more unnatural than our conception of a thing called "nature"

thank you!

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2024/11/01
15:02 UTC

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"Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path." - Ellen DeGeneres

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2024/11/01
14:06 UTC

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"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are." - Will Ferrell

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2024/11/01
14:06 UTC

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"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic." — Peter Drucker

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2024/11/01
13:49 UTC

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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up." - Mark Twain

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2024/11/01
13:38 UTC

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Verily, the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul and then walks grinning in the funeral. -Kahlil Gibran

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2024/11/01
08:13 UTC

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It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say, then say the opposite. - Sam Levenson

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2024/11/01
08:05 UTC

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"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind." - Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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2024/11/01
08:01 UTC

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Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence. - Nick Saban

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2024/11/01
05:02 UTC

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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes. - Jack Handey

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2024/11/01
03:53 UTC

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"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power." – Ashleigh Brilliant

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2024/11/01
00:48 UTC

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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” - Babe Ruth

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2024/11/01
00:36 UTC

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"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." – Homer Simpson “What have future generations ever done for me?” – Homer Simpson

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2024/10/31
19:31 UTC

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"I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane."- Jackie Kennedy.

relating to this atm lol sending to everyone that read this a lot of light.

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2024/10/31
19:15 UTC

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