Latest Quotes

“I feel like I’m underwater, weighed down, helpless.”

— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“I was lost in the anxiety of the moment. I was crying and trying not to breathe too loudly.”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.”

— Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

“He understood, viscerally, what it meant when people said their hearts were in their throats, although it wasn’t just his heart he could feel but all his organs thrusting upward, trying to exit him through his mouth, his innards scrambled with anxiety.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel

“I like to O.D. I like to almost O.D. on drugs. Yeah. I like to go to the highest. Man, I loved it. I loved it. Wow. And I kept smoking, kept smoking. But I never got to get back to that high, that first high. That first high, yeah. I never got it.”

— Anonymous, Dark Days

“You know what? Scrap the words altogether. Words are cliché. You know who hated words? Hemingway.”

— Amanda Rosenberg, Emails From A CEO Who Just Has A Few Changes To The Website — Slackjaw

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”

— Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”

— Gerard Way, Unknown Origin

“A commitment does not get a grip on me if I am always free to revoke it.”

— Hubert L. Dreyfus, On the Internet (Thinking in Action)

“Anytime I need to see your face, I just close my eyes and I am taken to a place where your crystal mind and magenta feelings take up shelter in the base of my spine.”

— Savage Garden, I Want You - Savage Garden

“So no one told you life was gonna be this way”

— The Rembrandts, The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You (Friends Theme Song)

“No one can claim privilege above the law. It cannot happen in the United States.”

— David Clarke, Diversity, Melania front-and-center on first night of Trump convention

“If you’re writing React, you have access to a more powerful styling construct than CSS class names. You have components.”

— michael chan, “Scale” FUD and Style Components — learnreact

“When we make love, Clarence Nathan, feels like he is entering his own history.”

— Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness: A Novel

“Getting the fuck over it does not mean you ignore your feelings. They are not the same thing. Getting the fuck over it means I see you, emotion that could have the power to devastate me and paralyze me for the day, or week, or year. And I am choosing to put my energy elsewhere. It does not mean you…”

— Brianna Wiest, Get The F*#k Over It

“This is because the equality operator == does type coercion, meaning that the interpreter implicitly tries to convert the values before comparing. On the other hand, the identity operator === does not do type coercion, and thus does not convert the values when comparing.”

— Andreas Grech, Does it matter which equals operator (== vs ===) I use in JavaScript comparisons?

“We have the same enemy and it has only one name: Death. Before it we are all equal. In its eyes no life has more weight than another.”

— Elie Wiesel, Day: A Novel

“One of the most common fantasies I have heard from many of the most violent prison inmates is the scenario of going to their deaths in a hail of gunfire while killing as many people as possible before they selves die... In the prisons and on the streets of the United States, such behavior appears to…”

— James Gilligan, Shame, Guilt, and Violence

“Yes, poor Taylor Swift is the victim once again. A victim of a ‘character assassination’. A character assassination much like when she posted Joe Jonas‘ breakup voicemail on YouTube. A character assassination much like when she described the woman Joe Jonas dated after her, Camille Belle, as ‘an act…”

— Todd, RIP Taylor Swift (2009 - 2016)