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I have a very low threshold of death.
My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.
- the Woody Allen movie Casino Royale
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Woody Allen
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
You have to learn to push the guilt
under the rug and move on,
otherwise it overwhelms you.
- the Woody Allen movie Match Point
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year
for cheating on my metaphysics final ...
I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
The food at this place is really terrible ...
and such small portions.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
I have a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're gonna go out.
You know, I - I feel that life is -
is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Those are the two categories, you know.
The - the horrible would be like, um,
I don't know, terminal cases, you know,
and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life.
It's amazing to me. You know, and the miserable is everyone else.
That's - that's - so - so - when you go through life -
you should be thankful that you're miserable
because you're very lucky to be miserable.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High
and you ... blink and you're 40,
you blink again and you can see movies
at half price on a senior citizen's pass.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately,
ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As she passed among the hungry and the dejected,
delivering the rations and water,
she chanted in a low whisper,
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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