Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 10 of 10

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

458. “I don’t try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.”

— Marty Rubin

459. “A moth is a mysterious thing. You can clip its wings but you’ll never discover its secret.”

— Marty Rubin

460. “Wise men count backward toward zero. They know that’s where contentment lies.”

— Marty Rubin

461. “Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.”

— Marty Rubin

462. “A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love.”

— Marty Rubin

463. “When you’re playing at something and having fun, you don’t stop to ask yourself why.”

— Marty Rubin

464. “We’re all bewildered, but most bewildered of all are those who think they know the truth.”

— Marty Rubin

465. “Writing is a way of opening up to the world.”

— Marty Rubin

466. “Accidents are built into the road.”

— Marty Rubin

467. “Laughter unties the Gordian Knot.”

— Marty Rubin

468. “Whatever hardships or disappointments arose in my life, the solution I always found was to go on living.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

470. “When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.”

— Marty Rubin

471. “Life is not a battle, not a struggle. We impose these burdens on ourselves.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

481. “Happiness, to me, is something simple. I think of something I would like doing and I do it.”

— Marty Rubin

482. “There are philosophers who say life is meaningless. But it’s really the concept of meaning that is meaningless.”

— Marty Rubin

483. “Rebellion is breaking the rules; freedom is denying there are any.”

— Marty Rubin

484. “After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.”

— Marty Rubin

Featured in: Reading Quotes

485. “Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.”

— Marty Rubin

486. “Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.”

— Marty Rubin

487. “Belief, not lack of it, is the source of intolerance. The greater the belief, the greater the intolerance.”

— Marty Rubin

488. “One death apiece is plenty.”

— Marty Rubin

489. “Success isn’t important. What’s important is that one is happy and doing things one enjoys.”

— Marty Rubin

490. “You can never say “no, that’s impossible” when it comes to human behavior or human relationships.”

— Marty Rubin

491. “I love bad dreams. They remind me of the goodness of life.”

— Marty Rubin

492. “Nothing is ever ahead of us: it is today, always today.”

— Marty Rubin

493. “Everyone sees only their own reflection in the mirror of thought.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

497. “Read the philosophers and go mad.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin