"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
-Dave Barry
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend."
-Jim Morrison
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
-Aristotle
"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."
"H. L. Mencken
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little."
Mark Twain
"I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed."
Tamar Myers
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein
"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."
-Roman Polanski
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision."
Charles Dickens
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"Never raise your hand to your children, it leaves your midsection unprotected."
-Robert Orben
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." ~George F. Will
"Life is wasted on the living."
-Douglas Adams