“If there is a god, he’s got a shitload of explaining to do” – Tommy, Rescue Me
“Fighting with somebody is better than not having anybody” – (Fish in the Bathtub)
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets” – Arthur Miller
“There’s a lot of destruction at the door of a successful picture” – W Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gate
“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on” – Theodore Roosevelt
“In this world, there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” – Oscar Wilde
“Time heals all, but what if time itself is the disease?” – Trapeze Artist, Wings of Desire
“Sometimes things don’t work out the way we hope…you feel like you’ve come to an end, and you don’t know what to do next…but if you just keep going, you find something new to fight for” – Joel, The Last of Us
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated” – Maya Angelou
“I believe in offering people a hand even if they slap it away” – Monica Rawling, The Shield
“What do you do when the man that you are isn’t the man you want to be?”
“Then you give the man that you are a swift kick in the ass”
– Julien and the Preacher, The Shield
“To be successful and great, you must keep going back” – Abel Morales, A Most Violent Year
“If he is depressed…he could just push it down like the rest of us” – Padraic, The Banshees of Inisherin
“Distrust your own impulse to leave your loved ones in the ruins” – Adam Fell, Dear Corporation
“How could someone make love without being in love?” – Teresa, Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Totalitarian movements use and abuse democratic freedoms in order to abolish them” – Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master” – Epictetus
“If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.” V Frankl
“Just because someone stumbles and loses their way doesn’t mean they are lost forever” – Dr. Charles Xavier, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
“We save everyone…even if they don’t deserve it…especially if they don’t deserve it” – Hughie, The Boys
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil” – Hannah Arendt
“Just because someone stumbles, loses their way, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever” – Charles Xavier, Days for Future Past
“If you love, you already belong to god” – Brothers Kharamazov, 52
“Just a little more love and no one would be lost in this world” – Uncle Osdorff after Thymian (Louise Brooks) leaves, Diary of a Lost Girl
Better Call Saul
“You’re one of those people who give a little money to charity every month to make up for all the bad you’ve done” – Homeowner being evicted
“I’m doing my job, which is protecting you from you” – Jimmy McGill
“The term “demagogue” (dēmagōgos) arose in Greece during the fifth century B.C.E. to describe a new breed of charismatic politicians who sought to lead the masses by arousing their passions and appealing to their prejudices. In contrast to political figures who advocated courses of action that they believed were in the common good, demagogues used their rhetorical skills to promote policies that advanced their self-interests.”
“So when the orator is more convincing than the doctor, what happens is that an ignorant person is more convincing than the expert before an equally ignorant audience.”
“I would rather . . . that the whole world should be at odds with me, and oppose me, rather than that I myself should be at odds with myself, and contradict myself.”
– Platos Gorgias
“Those you underestimate will devour you” – Loki, Loki
“Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Matthew 23:34
“And the LORD God commanded the man, ‘You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.’ “ Genesis 2:16-17
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” Matthew 7:6
“Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.” Genesis 20:10
“If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.” Matthew 10:14
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“Eichmann spent the last months of the war cooling his heels in Berlin, with nothing to do, cut by the other department heads in the RSHA who had lunch together everday in the building where he had his office but did not once ask him to join them.” – Hannah Arendt
“Your pain is not the only pain is not the worst pain, your guilt is not the only guilt is not the worst guilt.” – Dear Corporation, Adam Fell
“To give light, one must endure the burning” – Viktor Frankl
“Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man” – Sappho
“Don’t Panic” – Douglas Adams
“I aint the one” – N.W.A.
“If you aren’t going to fuck, you aren’t going to stay here” – anonymous
“You gotta kinda feel out the vibe” – Fantastic Mr. Fox
“No fair renown shall we win by tarrying so long with stranger women” – Heracles, Argonautica
“From such sudden loses of Arbeitsfreude Eichmann was to suffer throughout his life. The worst of them occurred when he was told of the Fuhrer’s order for the ‘physical extermination of the jews'” – Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
“It teaches us that the art of storytelling is coming to an end. Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange experiences.” – Walter Benjamin, Storyeller
Quotes from Illuminations (Hannah Arendt)
- On Benjamin, “For he was of course also speaking about himself when, in complete agreement, he quoted what Jacques Riviere had said about Proust: he “died of the same inexperience that permitted him to write his works. He died of ignorance …
because he did not know how to make a fire or open a window” (“The Image of Proust”). Like Proust, he was wholly incapable of changing “his life’s conditions even when they were about to crush him.” - “Wherever one looks in Benjamin’s life, one will find the little hunchback. Long before the outbreak of the Third Reich he was playing his evil tricks, causing publishers who had promised Benjamin an annual stipend for reading manuscripts or editing a periodical for them to go bankrupt before the first number appeared. Later the hunchback did allow a collection of magnificent German letters, made with infinite care and provided with the most marvelous commentaries, to be printed-under the title Deutsche Menschen and with the motto” Von Ehre ohlle Ruhm/ Von Grosse ohne Glanz/Von Wurde obne Sold” (Of Honor without Fame/Of Greatness without Splendor/Of Dignity without Pay); but then he saw to it that it ended in the cellar of the bankrupt Swiss publisher, instead of being distributed, as intended by Benjamin, who signed the selection with a pseudonym, in Nazi Germany. “
- “He was concerned
with the correlation between a street scene, a speculation on the
stock exchange, a poem, a thought, with the hidden line which
holds them together and enables the historian or philologist to
recognize that they must all be placed in the same period. When
Adorno criticized Benjamin’s “wide-eyed presentation of actualities” (Briefe II, 793), he hit the nail right on its head; this is
precisely what Benjamin was doing and w~nted to do. Strongly
influenced by surrealism, it was the “attempt to capture the portrait of history in the most insignificant representations of reality,
its scraps, as it wereH (Briefe II, 685).”
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart’s impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another’s unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one’s own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.
“It’s hard to say but I think you better: tell me you don’t love me don’t love me anymore. I’ll never overcome this madness if I don’t know for sure” – The Veils
Theses on the Concept of History (Walter Benjamin)
- “The chronicler, who recounts events without distinguishing between the great and small, thereby accounts for the truth, that nothing which has ever happened is to be given as lost to history.”
- “Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair [verweilen: a reference to Goethe’s Faust], to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress, is this storm.”
- “If so, then there is a secret protocol [Verabredung: also appointment] between the generations of the past and that of our own. For we have been expected upon this earth. For it has been given us to know, just like every generation before us, a weak messianic power, on which the past has a claim.
- “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another.”
– Walter Benjamin
“Jack I’ve never had the opportunity to saw this to you face to face, but your penis is clearly visible through your sweatpants. Ok, have fun in Hollywood” – Coach in a goodbye video, AP Bio
“I’ve been involved in a number of cults, both a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.” – Creed Bratton, The Office
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” – Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach
“…since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” – Athenian envoy, Melian Dialogue
“If you’re a pussy, they fuck you” – Narcos, Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela
“I am tired of earth, these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives”
– Dr. Manhattan
“A man has got to know his limitations”
– Dirty Harry
“Just a matter of time”
– Dirty Harry
“Wanna put my tender heart in a blender, watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion” – eve 6
“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.”
– Paul Klee
“Happy is a kick in the balls waiting to happen” – The Punisher
“- Who’s Lars from Norway?
– Just some guy she met at the gym with Brad Pitt’s face and Jesus’ abs
…Just don’t be a pussy” – 500 Days of Summer
“Beat on the brat with a baseball bat”
– Ramones
Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.
“Friends are the family you choose”
– Peanut Butter Falcon
“When you make 30 euros an hour you can afford piety”
– Der Tatortreiniger
“I mean, you own a wife right…you should make good use of her”
“It don’t matter, none of this matters”
“Look, I love women, and that’s why I pay them $40 to have sex with me”
“I look at my life everyday, and I pop a boner”
“I ain’t riding in no women robot: they’re inferior. That’s why we pay them less.”
Answering machine “This is Carl: leave me a message or leave me alone: I don’t care”
– Carl, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
“I thought you said tv was bad”
“It is, but we f*^%ing need it”
-Meatwad, Frylock, ATHF
“Eichmann spent the last months of the war cooling his heels in Berlin, with nothing to do, cut by the other department heads in the R.S.H.A., who had lunch together every day in the building where he had his office but did not once ask him to join them.” – Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
“History isn’t here yet. It’s coming, but we got here early this time. Maybe this time we can be ready for it. We can take it on our own terms.” – First Cow
“That seems dangerous…
…So is anything worth doing” – First Cow
“Man do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills” – Schopenhauer
“I am not a pioneer, I am just scared to my animal blood, of the doorway, of the men, of what they will keep of me, and what will be grist. I take my first step and cannot untake it.” – Adam Fell
“The White Stag has a message for you. Hunters of old pursued the stag, not because they expected to kill it, but because it led them in the joy of the chase to new and fresh adventures, and so to capture happiness” – Wikipedia
“A person’s birthplace was an accident; his true homeland he chose himself, body and spirit.” – Mario Vargas Llosa, The Way To Paradise
“Human evil is limitless when it brings forth no remorse, when its actions are forgotten as soon as they are committed.” – Hannah Arendt
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” – Viktor Frankl
“It was, for the writer, one of those moments when a man who is about to leave youth behind thinks of life with a resigned gravity that leads him to find in all things the image of his own melancholy” – Benjamin, Arcades Project, Pg.90
– Viktor Frankl
“I’m just afraid she’ll make a lot of people angry” (in reference to Hannah Arendt), “That’s in her nature” – Hannah Arendt
“The half-life of love is forever” – Junot Diaz
“Lemme tell you something. You are getting older. You’re losing your looks. You’re only charming because you’re cute, you’re not funny. And you’re not smart, I hope you understand that. You’re nothing but six inches. And a pretty face And you’re going to have to suffer just like everyone else”
– Anne Heche to Ashton Kutcher, Spread
“We have to carry ourselves and each other and the concussions of love in our skulls. That’s the deal we make with the world when we’re born.”
– Dear Corporation, Adam Fell
– Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
“Man does not live on bread alone”
– Matthew 4
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
– Rilke
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