Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “My greatest pleasure is to travel down an unfamiliar road.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

464. “Time is a river that carries us along. We have to leave everything behind.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

488. “It is better to err on the side of forgiveness.”

— Marty Rubin

489. “A wave is no less free because the current helps it along.”

— Marty Rubin

490. “The lifting of an arm or leg is magic.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

498. “One death apiece is plenty.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin