Ab-Soul Quotes
People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it."
Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.
Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
Wanderlust is incurable.
Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.
To be, or not to be: what a question!
Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.
Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
You had to look at it as sales, as costumer service. Costumer's alwasy right, you know? Service with a smile. Those type of things so it's just kinda in me. In my DNA.
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. From my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you.
Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.
I think our Canadian fan base is large because it took us a while to get over here anyway, in the first place.
Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.
Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.
O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
The critics only made me work harder.
For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.