"To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Life Is Quotes #Worthless Quotes

“There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.”
“Change your 'Nafs', change the world.”
“We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.”
“It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.154
“We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them ***** up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.”

Source : "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.
“The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity.”
“I ran away for a couple years just to prove I've hever been free.”
“We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.”

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