What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

[Zora C Penter]

It is senseless to try to avenge history, just as it is senseless to mock it. One must understand it. The past is irretrievable. The present is incomplete. The future has already begun.

Dmitri Volkogonov, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, xxvii

That is an amazing quote, and one I have not heard before. Thank you for sharing!

[soccerts]

I love a lot of older quotes from classic literature and philosophy, but I recently came across a more modern favorite:

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

[jesscat304]

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
Robert Frost

[Duckie425]

At the moment...

"If you're Early, you are On Time
If you're On Time, you are Late
If you're Late, Don't Go"- Jawanna Saunders

[PepperedPenelope]

Courage, Dear Heart

CS Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader

[Joe Hadithi]

“I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best-laid plans.

- Voldemort, Harry Potter, And The Deathly Hallows

[rinelle]

Be as you wish to seem.

- Socrates

[SunVixen]

“Atticus stood up and walked to the end of the porch. When he completed his examination of the wisteria vine he strolled back to me.
"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-"
"Sir?"
"-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

“To Kill a Mockingbird”, Nelle Harper Lee.

“Chi-lu asked what is due to the ghosts of the dead.
The Master said: “We fail in our duty to the living; can we do our duty to the dead?”
He ventured to ask about death.
“We know not life,” said the Master, “how can we know death?”

“The Sayings of Confucius”, 1.11.

“Tzu-kung asked: “Can one word cover the whole duty of man?”
The Master said: “Fellow-feeling, perhaps. Do not do unto others what thou wouldst not they
should do unto thee.”

“The Sayings of Confucius”, 15.23.

[MandyP]

"This too shall pass"

Edward Fitzgerald

[finebunchofnothing]

I love nearly everything that Chuck Palahniuk says in his books. For instance, that's one of my favourite quotes from Lullaby:

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

[mmm17]

The most common, and also the most conspicuous form of slips of the tongue, however, is that of saying the exact opposite of what one meant to say.

Sigmund Freud in A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (p. 11).

[yimei1209]

There's so many quotes I love, but I've been thinking about this one for months now.

That's right, I love you. And just like the verse of poetry you once read to me, I need you.
- Kim Jonghyun, Skeleton Flower: Things That Have Been Released and Set Free

[melel_jo]

To the nearly 60,000 who didn’t make it. We scratched our grief into a wall. And it looks just like your names.

- Frank Camper, L.R.R.P.: The Professional

[Lydiahen12]

We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.

- Rupert Spira, The Transparency of Things

[Shanza_basheer]

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban