the history of melancholia includes all of us.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I believe more youths stay out of leadership positions because of the fear of indequacy and criticisms.

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.