Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Love is the one wild card.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Football is a sad game.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

To make headway, improve your head.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!