"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack | Passion | 18 bookmarks

"All of life is a foreign country."

Kerouac, Jack | Life and Living | 3 bookmarks

"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

Kerouac, Jack | Dreams | 5 bookmarks

"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Suffering | 1 bookmarks

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Stupidity | 2 bookmarks

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Stubbornness | 1 bookmarks

"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Sacrifice | 1 bookmarks

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Relationships | 3 bookmarks

"That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Photography | 1 bookmarks

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."

Schopenhauer, Arthur | Books - Reading | 1 bookmarks