Doubt

I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever told myself.
--Joan Didion

My Life

Instagram: My life is a party.
Snapchat: My life is a quirky TV show
Facebook: My life turned out great!
Twitter: We're all going to die.
--Mikel Jollett

Over

When it's over, it's over, and we don't know
any of us, what happens then.
So I try not to miss anything.
--Mary Oliver

Longing

The longing for a frictionless life is a death wish.
--Julie Goldberg

Why

Dear God, who I don't believe in. Why?
--Hayden Black

Myth

Outside of science, progress is simply a myth.
--John Gray

Associate

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
--Edmund Burke

Dignity

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
--Bayard Rustin

Libraries

Libraries aren't just about books. They are almost the only public space we have left which doesn't like our wallets more than us.
--Matt Haig

Ambiguities

I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tell Me

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
--Mary Oliver

See Yourself

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
--Marcus Aurelius

Life

Life is a near-death experience.
--George Carlin

Absolute

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
--Eric Hoffer

Uncomfortable

Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that, but unless it is talked about, constantly, it's not going to get better if people get bored. "Oh, is it that again? They're pulling the race card again. Why do we have to talk about that?" Well, because it's uncomfortable, and there has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change. Whether it's the LGBT movement, women's suffrage, race, it doesn't matter. People have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people because we're comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born white means.
--Gregg Popovich

Cynical

No matter how cynical I get, it's just never enough to keep up.
--Lily Tomlin

Bomb

There is only one duty for the moment: every other task is a dream and a mockery. Stop the atomic bomb. Stop making the bomb. Abandon the bomb completely. Dismantle every existing bomb.
--Lewis Mumford (1946)

Fit

I still fit into the anxiety I wore in high school.
--Elizabeth Williams

Moron

He was a goddam stupid moron. He hated it when you called him a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
--J.D. Salinger

Numbness

Our numbness is our death.
--Lewis Mumford

Dead

If you're not getting older, you're dead.
--Tom Petty

Facts

"Don't politicize this tragedy" is American for "Don't discuss the facts that would help prevent and prepare for future tragedies."
--Toscha