Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Life is not a battle, not a struggle. We impose these burdens on ourselves.”

— Marty Rubin

452. “Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.”

— Marty Rubin

453. “No life lacks grandeur if you claim it as your own.”

— Marty Rubin

454. “Speech is the beginning of love, touch its consummation.”

— Marty Rubin

455. “There is more to writing than playing with words.”

— Marty Rubin

456. “To love is to be loving. Love is a feeling which proves itself with acts of love.”

— Marty Rubin

457. “Don’t be passive. Act. Have interests, if you want to be happy. Don’t just let life happen to you.”

— Marty Rubin

458. “All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.”

— Marty Rubin

459. “Don’t even thinking of loving someone if you’re not prepared to love them forever.”

— Marty Rubin

460. “My greatest pleasure is to travel down an unfamiliar road.”

— Marty Rubin

461. “An aphorism is the insight of a moment, not a lifetime.”

— Marty Rubin

462. “If you want other eyes to open, open yours first.”

— Marty Rubin

463. “There are 200,000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.”

— Marty Rubin

464. “Smell the flower first; then call it by name.”

— Marty Rubin

465. “Any casual observer can tell at a glance I’m not the person I think I am.”

— Marty Rubin

466. “We learn nothing from despair and that’s what makes it despair.”

— Marty Rubin

467. “There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.”

— Marty Rubin

468. “If I didn’t laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.”

— Marty Rubin

469. “Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.”

— Marty Rubin

470. “Writing is about preserving things, life is about letting go.”

— Marty Rubin

471. “The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.”

— Marty Rubin

472. “My hero is Methuselah. He lived a thousand years.”

— Marty Rubin

473. “I’m on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.”

— Marty Rubin

474. “Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.”

— Marty Rubin

475. “A cheerful readiness is what seems honest now, facing an uncertain future with humor, grace and dignity.”

— Marty Rubin

476. “Finding a constructive outlet for one’s wildest emotions. That’s what sanity is, that’s what matters.”

— Marty Rubin

477. “The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.”

— Marty Rubin

478. “Men are always ready to fight; it’s tenderness that scares them.”

— Marty Rubin

479. “Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.”

— Marty Rubin

480. “Death-the thing we’d all like to forget. We’ve built an entire civilization to forget it.”

— Marty Rubin

481. “If I care about my own life, what do I care if the universe cares or not?”

— Marty Rubin

482. “Self-sacrifice is something other people always have to pay for.”

— Marty Rubin

483. “A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.”

— Marty Rubin

484. “Read the philosophers and go mad.”

— Marty Rubin

485. “Trying to be more than human one becomes less.”

— Marty Rubin

486. “Love means being there and sticking it out. That’s what love means.”

— Marty Rubin

487. “Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.”

— Marty Rubin

488. “Thinking is a sign of disturbance. You don’t think about things you’re secure about.”

— Marty Rubin

489. “Some love affairs last a night, some a lifetime.”

— Marty Rubin

490. “Where would you be if you left all your cares behind?”

— Marty Rubin

491. “A belief in violets isn’t necessary for violets to exist.”

— Marty Rubin

492. “Al other creatures use their intelligence to survive. We use ours to destroy ourselves.”

— Marty Rubin

493. “Around a free spirit everyone feels free.”

— Marty Rubin

494. “What doesn’t kill us makes a good story.”

— Marty Rubin

495. “The aphorism-that uneasy compromise between poetry and philosophy.”

— Marty Rubin

496. “A common phrase: I was deceived; an uncommon one: I am deceived.”

— Marty Rubin

497. “What you’re afraid to think must be the truth.”

— Marty Rubin

498. “Names disappear, but not the faces. The faces stay with you.”

— Marty Rubin

499. “All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.”

— Marty Rubin

500. “It is the method that makes it madness.”

— Marty Rubin