I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too
Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.
“Molten wounds still glow where the two nuclear bombs detonated. And I wonder, in my last moments, if the planet does not mind that we wound her surface or pillage her bounty, because she knows we silly warm things are not even a breath in her cosmic life. We have grown and spread, and will rage and die. And when all that remains of us is our steel monuments and plastic idols, her winds will whisper, her sands will shift, and she will spin on and on, forgetting about the bold, hairless apes who thought they deserved immortality.”
– Pierce Brown, Morning Star Novel (P. 166)
The absence of limitations is the enemy of creativity
- Orson Welles, I believe
Interesting. As much as I don’t like this, I can’t help but acknowledge it.
The ending of Evangelion talks about it.
“Ignorance is bliss.”
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
When camping, late at night, a buddy told another one of my buddies:
“If you can see my face, I can’t see anything”.
I thought it was hilarious and concise and it still sticks with me. If your flashlight is illuminating someone’s face, they are being blinded!
This extends to all kinds of directional light sources, notably headlights on cars and bicycles.
In 20 years, the only ones to remember all the hard work and long hours are your children.
Oof, this one hit hard for me. I’ve been working a lot of hours lately and I need to start putting my actual life as a priority. Thanks for this.
“It’s not the first thought that comes to mind that matters, what’s important is what you after that”
This was in the context of racism. I was raised in an racist environment, and I was struggling with the awful thoughts that had been indoctrinated in to me bubbling up when I encountered folk that were the target of that racism.
That quote helped me not be hung up on guilt and self flagellation, and instead to focus on being the person I want to be, rather than the person I was taught to be.
I feel really bad for those children being brought up by racist parents.
They have two options: either acknowledge their parents for who they are, or don’t.
We’re just happy to have you over here with us. 😄
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down… with the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
- Cave Johnson, Portal 2
Maybe not words to live by, but certainly a memorable quote.
Unbelievable. You, [subject name here], must be the pride of [subject hometown here]!
Maybe they’re not words to live by – if you’re a coward.
All of his quotes are just great. My favorite:
All these science spheres are made of asbestos all the way. Keeps out the rats. Let us know if you feel a shortness of breath, a persistent dry cough, or your heart-stopping. Because that is not part of the test. That’s asbestos…Worst case scenario, you miss out on a few rounds of Canasta, plus you forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into a calculator, it makes a happy face.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Funny that there’s a similar line I use, and of all things it was from a comedian on a panel show.
It’s all forgotten like hand prints on a forgotten handrail.
- Bob Mortimer, Would I Lie to You?
Man that is a pretty movie.
If you hide your whole life, you’ll forget who you are.
From citizen Kane:
“It’s easy to make a lot of money, if all you want is a lot of money”
Or something to that effect. Think about that line often
Except he said it in ancient Greek.
A german saying: “Besser Vorsicht als Nachsicht.” It means that you should better be cautious or prepared beforehand than having to clean your mess up after it went wrong. Good preparations help you a lot in life.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as we anglophones say.
“What stands in the way becomes the way.” M.A.
