Marty Rubin Quotes

We love the things we love for no other reason than we love them.

Art always springs from a surplus of life

I've seen a man die and a bird die and there was no difference.

If I had to give the young any advice, it would be this: Don't believe in tomorrow.

The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love.

All talk is small talk.

How small a single life seems in this vast universe. But it is really our conception of life which is small.

Irony is only skin deep.

A scent of lavender cannot be put into words.

I like paths that lead to no certain end, that keep me wondering where I am.

Whatever gets you moving and out of your head is good for you.

When a woman endeavors to free herself, all social mechanisms conspire to keep her enslaved.

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

Life and love are never what you think they are.

Everything in moderation, even the truth

The only really free artist is the one who sings all alone in the shower.

Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.

No one can understand human reality without understanding human imagination.

I'd rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics.

I tend to believe simple things are the real things.

The unsaid rules every conversation.

What is alienation? Thought.

Hypocrites are always liars, and liars are always cowards.

My calm is like the tides: never at rest.

The road to hell is paved with careful planning.

Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.

How wonderful life is! How sad to squander it in bitterness, self-loathing and hate!

Summer is the season of wild birds.

First the nest; then the flight.

The days are for freedom and the nights for love.

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

You can curse the wind, but you can't keep the leaves from falling.

Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem.

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we're all part of the conversation.

Don't look for gold where there is none.

I write because I don't know why I write.

The mind loves riddles but not the heart. The heart loves only to touch and be touched.

How hard we work to overburden and overcomplicate our lives!

Even music can't compete with the canyons and waterfalls.

I feel a vast indifference toward everything that is not love.

It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.

What a betrayal of life, of sense, to choose hate over love, despair over happiness.

Culture is a communicable disease.

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Life is always dangerous and always mysterious.

I prefer Nature's indifference to God's love.

If you feel the urge, get up and dance; and if you don't feel the urge, get up and dance.

Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers.

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

Memories are fool's gold.

From the body, pleasure; from the body, pain. From the body, life; from the body, death.

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.

Maybe there is no justice, only different degrees of injustice.

Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.

We make promises to live, not to keep.

Is there anything in the world more useless than an afterthought?

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.

The technological revolution seems to have no higher purpose than to render humanity obsolete.

A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.

The biggest lie: I wish.

Grace rides inside the waves.

It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing.

One does not create beauty, one surrenders to it.

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.

One should live as if the very rocks are glad you're here.

Trust your senses most of the time, your intuition some of the time, and your conclusions never.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

Be grateful to the gullible heart!

Humor is a second wind.

Who does not despair when they think without acting?

The real plague is willful ignorance and education can't cure that.

Every pundit who exhorts you to "think for yourself" really wants you to think like them.

The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming.

A man or woman becomes happy by choosing happiness every day.

It's not worth staying up all night just to paint masterpieces.

Better to love for no reason than have reasons not to love.

What you can't do, you can't know.

Altruist: a person who likes to help people more than they like to be helped.

One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment.

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

Only sad, little people condemn the pleasures of others.

Are the grapes bitter or sweet? You have to taste.

That we live in a godless universe is a reason to celebrate not despair.

Freedom's chains are the hardest to break.

Don't try to understand things and you won't feel confused.

Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.

Writing is a provocation.

People always say, "It's not that simple." But maybe it is.

Dance is the art closest to nature, to real life.

The predictions of false prophets always come true.

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

Self-loathing is hell.

In the same way mannequins resemble people, fiction resembles life.

Don't resist! Open the door when love comes knocking.