Best Aphorism Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”

“Some people will hate you for not loving them.”

“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”

“Be selfish, if only for selfless reasons; be selfless, if only for selfish reasons.”

“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”

“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.”

“All my life I’ve been going in circles. I bypass zeroes.”

“It's only words... unless they're true.”

“What you choose also chooses you.”

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”

“Silence does not ask permission to rule; it simply occupies the throne that the word has left vacant out of fear of the truth.”

“​"The true gaze does not come from the light, but from the inhabited darkness.”

“We want to be unique. We act like everyone else.”

“Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

“I have forgotten my umbrella.”

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

“Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.”