Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Names disappear, but not the faces. The faces stay with you.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

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

— Marty Rubin

459. “The only way to be free is to act. Stagnation is death.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

464. “Pornography is sexual materialism.”

— Marty Rubin

465. “To rebel is to be reborn.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

467. “The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

469. “Seeker, where are you going, and what do you expect to find when you get there?”

— Marty Rubin

470. “One becomes an adult on the day one realizes that others don’t have to share one’s beliefs or concerns.”

— Marty Rubin

471. “Cynic: a dead man walking.”

— Marty Rubin

472. “My calm is like the tides: never at rest.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

476. “I belong to the church of the turtle and the mourning dove.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

478. “Days that lift us like a wave, when you feel you could live forever.”

— Marty Rubin

479. “How many deaths before the real one?”

— Marty Rubin

480. “No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.”

— Marty Rubin

481. “Use ideas, don’t let them use you.”

— Marty Rubin

482. “Be satisfied. You don’t know how lucky you are.”

— Marty Rubin

483. “Laughter unties the Gordian Knot.”

— Marty Rubin

484. “The definition of an aphorism is just another aphorism.”

— Marty Rubin

485. “One death apiece is plenty.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

487. “One should never go dancing with a broken foot, but one should with a broken heart.”

— Marty Rubin

488. “A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.”

— Marty Rubin

489. “We’re the slaves of our bodies, but we don’t have to be the slaves of our minds.”

— Marty Rubin

490. “The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he’s awake.”

— Marty Rubin

491. “Human behavior cannot be explained for the simple reason that it makes no sense.”

— Marty Rubin

492. “What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.”

— Marty Rubin

493. “Ask the wave as it withdraws what freedom is.”

— Marty Rubin

494. “A man swallowed a bird every day but still couldn’t fly.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

496. “Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.”

— Marty Rubin

497. “A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

499. “The real journey is how we travel, not where.”

— Marty Rubin

500. “In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.”

— Marty Rubin