Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Pornography is sexual materialism.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

453. “First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

462. “Read the philosophers and go mad.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

471. “In a world without meaning nothing is meaningless.”

— Marty Rubin

472. “Accidents are built into the road.”

— Marty Rubin

473. “Laughter unties the Gordian Knot.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

480. “Be unprepared, that’s my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

496. “One death apiece is plenty.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

499. “Hell is real, but it’s not the Biblical hell. It’s the hell of those who think only of themselves.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin