Favorite Quotes

https://i.redd.it/4sx30b5h4eh01.png - Marcus Aurelius

"There, I was typing blindly, but now I have taken that pack of spelling monstrosities and ordered the machine to copy the mess, and on the copy I made all the corrections, so it comes out perfect on the page. From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola. Repenting, I could have deleted the first draft. I left it to show how the 'is' and the 'ought,' accident and necessity, can coexist on this screen. If I wanted, I could remove the offending passage from the screen but not from the memory, thereby creating an archive of my repressions while denying omnivorous Freudians and virtuosi of variant texts the pleasure of conjecture, the exercise of their occupation, their academic glory. This is better than real memory, because real memory, at the cost of much effort, learns to remember but not to forget." --Belbo, "Foucault's Pendulum," Umberto Eco

One of my favourite quotes. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9c/4e/3c/9c4e3ce80fe0ddd9a493fe932a2d4613--kaleidoscope-quotes-sara-bareilles-quotes.jpg

"I'm not crying. It's just rain." Yuki from Wolf Children.

This is a bit darker, but... “He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him—as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life.” --Daniel Quinn, "City of Glass," Paul Auster

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire