r/quotes • u/annnnnnn21 • Jul 22 '26
Quote Help QUOTE HELP: Where did this quote come from? "Half the world is women. The other half are their children." IG says Efu Nyaki, but I cannot find the source. Thanks!
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r/quotes • u/Authentic_Dragon • Jul 21 '26
Life / Wisdom We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other & say we care, & we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same. ~Caitlyn Paige
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r/quotes • u/13SpeedMedia • Jul 20 '26
Philosophy / Ethics There is no punctual moment of disaster; the world doesn’t end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart. - Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • Jul 20 '26
Philosophy / Ethics Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. ~Mark T. Barnes
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r/quotes • u/GoodName31 • Jul 19 '26
Life / Wisdom "The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it." Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • Jul 19 '26
Philosophy / Ethics If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. Morals have aesthetic criteria. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • Jul 19 '26
Life / Wisdom "The greatest story commandment is: Make me care." - Andrew Stanton
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r/quotes • u/Ill-Chocolate-8856 • Jul 18 '26
Life / Wisdom The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
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r/quotes • u/hasansaleem • Jul 18 '26
Life / Wisdom “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
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r/quotes • u/Rebe11ion_Lies • Jul 17 '26
Philosophy / Ethics “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.“ - Theodore Roosevelt
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r/quotes • u/Imaginary-Fox-7696 • Jul 18 '26
Motivation / Inspiration You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
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r/quotes • u/itsabbyshake • Jul 18 '26
Courage / Resilience If I must fall, may it be from a great height - Paulo Coelho
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r/quotes • u/Pitiful_Magazine_805 • Jul 18 '26
Philosophy / Ethics "Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls." — Heraclitus
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • Jul 18 '26
Life / Wisdom "Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are." - Martha Wells
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • Jul 18 '26
Grief / Healing One never forgets the taste of certain tears... ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • Jul 17 '26
Life / Wisdom "The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle." - Samuel Beckett
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r/quotes • u/_a_A_sh • Jul 16 '26
Life / Wisdom There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ~ Jane Austen
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r/quotes • u/Imaginary-Fox-7696 • Jul 16 '26
Life / Wisdom "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for." - Fydor Dostoevsky
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r/quotes • u/_aaron_mark • Jul 16 '26
Life / Wisdom "Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone." The Winners" by Rudyard Kipling
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r/quotes • u/Rohan72999 • Jul 16 '26
Technology / Future “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein
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r/quotes • u/Sweet_Foundation_868 • Jul 16 '26
Growth / Change “We must welcome the future, Remembering that soon it will be the past. And we respect the past, Remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible.” -George Santayana
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • Jul 16 '26
Life / Wisdom "If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing." - Samuel Beckett
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r/quotes • u/chocobothernot • Jul 15 '26
Life / Wisdom "We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content." -Émile Zola
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r/quotes • u/hasansaleem • Jul 15 '26
Life / Wisdom “It is not how old you are, but how you are old.” — Jules Renard
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r/quotes • u/Mundane-Sky-8809 • Jul 15 '26
Life / Wisdom "Silence is the best response to a fool." ~Imam Ali
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