What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

chicagohuman,

Education is experience and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

– T H White

IrrelevantBoB,

“Solo sé que no sé nada” Sócrates

doktorRobot,

Except he said it in ancient Greek.

IrrelevantBoB,

You are right, but in my head it sounds in my native language.

ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

FinallyDebunked,
@FinallyDebunked@slrpnk.net avatar

what’s the hell do you boys think that this is a fucking fairyland? pulling on you wee-wees like a pack of fucking fruits?

Electric_leprechaun,

Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day

GreyEyedGhost,

Kids these days wondering how a blank screen shows the right time.

TheGreenGolem,

Confidence is everything.

BrainisfineIthink,
@BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one avatar

We all hurt, we all need, we all cry, we all bleed.

One of my favorite reminders that everyone has personal struggles.

C4d,

Look after your equipment and your equipment will look after you.

-and-

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

davidalso,

I’ve only heard that second one in Swedish. I don’t know if it’s originates from Sweden, but it rhymes.

TrenchcoatFullofBats,

I believe the origin of the second one is Norway, where the weather is often bad, but people still like to go outside.

Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær!

C4d,

The person who shared it with me was Norwegian so this would fit; they just translated it for me.

MrGerrit,

"Why did I follow him…? I don’t know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned… I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always… into the East."

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keeb420,

"these problems are the good ones to have." from an atmosphere song, where they got it form idk. but whenever im feeling like shits going south i remember this and it reminds me that its not all so bad.

eddietrax,
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“Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry… and I’ll give you something to cry about you little bastard.” -Jeff Goldblum - The Great White Hype

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

We were shown an A&E biography episode on Ray Crock my freshman year of high school for career class and they quoted the dude as saying

If my competitors were drowning in a sea of gasoline, I would throw in a lit match.

Milkshake man was ice fuckin’ cold!

electronicoldman, (edited )

Go with the flow

It is what it is

Live by the sword, die by the gun

FunnyUsername,
@FunnyUsername@lemmy.world avatar

“slowly sliding”

I don’t know why, but I notice this phrase often. I know it’s kind of arbitrary enough to be a coincidence to run into a lot, but for some reason it just got stuck in my head when I was young and it almost seems like it’s haunting me.

I feel like I’m going to hear these words before I die.

Lol. Probably not. But that’s what it feels like!

frippa,
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“if you poo you also pee, but if you pee you don’t always poo”

DarthVi,
@DarthVi@lemmy.ml avatar

“Why not? You and I are eccentrics. We’re certainly not typical of the people living on Terminus. As for criminals, that’s a matter of definition. And if criminals are the price we must pay for rebels, heretics, and geniuses, I’m willing to pay it. I demand the price be paid. […] You can’t have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm, and I don’t see how you can have on only one side of the norm. There is bound to be a certain symmetry.” - Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

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