Quotegasm*

Quotes for the kinky and quirky.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Samuel Butler

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Oscar Wilde

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

André Gide

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

Life didn’t promise to be wonderful.

Teddy Pendergrass

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Colette

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Lou Reed, “Magic and Loss”