"There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of disappointment."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Disappointment Quotes #Errors Quotes #Elderly Quotes

“You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.”
“How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.”
“There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.”
“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.”
“I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.”

Source : "Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror". Book by Os Guinness, p.92, 2005.
“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”
“The life that I have is all that I have and the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have is yours and yours and yours.”

Source : 1958 Poemrecited by Virginia McKenna as Violette Szabo in Carve Her Name With Pride.

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