"Inadequacy is the new poverty."

"I regret nothing except my entire life."

"A public display of affection is like a billionaire driving through a crowd of starving children: it's great if you are the billionaire."

"If you don’t have an opinion on a situation, you can’t complain. But if you do nothing to change a situation, all you will do is complain. Work for change — nothing is worse than constant complaining."

"Humanity is incapable of loving those in need. It is perfectly capable of loving those we choose."

From Albert Camus

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend."

"A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter."

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."

"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd."

"The absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future."

Excerpts from the lyrics of Manic Street Preachers

"I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else."
- Faster

"I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing."
- Faster

"All of my sins are attempts to fill the voids
All of my voids they are filled with sin
All of my demons they are kept within
And all my violence it does not exist"
- Ready For Drowning

"Everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave."
- Yes

Other Quotes

"All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
- Charles M. Schulz

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
- Victor Hugo

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
- A. Sachs

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
- Tupac Shakur