Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Ignorance is relatively easy to cure; stupidity is much harder.”

— Marty Rubin

302. “Between self-interest and the truth, most people will invariably choose self-interest.”

— Marty Rubin

303. “The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning.”

— Marty Rubin

304. “News used to come too late; now it comes too early.”

— Marty Rubin

305. “What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?”

— Marty Rubin

306. “Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers.”

— Marty Rubin

307. “Humor is the salvation of those without hope.”

— Marty Rubin

308. “If you’re in the fault-finding business you’ll find me full of faults.”

— Marty Rubin

309. “Love hates to be cross-examined. Question love, and it runs away.”

— Marty Rubin

310. “What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.”

— Marty Rubin

311. “Chronic complainers, in other words, idiots.”

— Marty Rubin

312. “When love becomes a perfect fire it leaves only ashes.”

— Marty Rubin

313. “I’d trade a million glib talkers for one person who’s relaxing and easy to get along with.”

— Marty Rubin

314. “Freedom without happiness is like pizza without the cheese. I don’t believe in it.”

— Marty Rubin

315. “When you have no expectations, they’re easy to fulfill.”

— Marty Rubin

316. “The Romans had power, the Greeks had imagination.”

— Marty Rubin

317. “People who are hard to please, in other words, idiots.”

— Marty Rubin

318. “I have my truest thoughts when I’m not thinking.”

— Marty Rubin

319. “Hiding only gives you away.”

— Marty Rubin

320. “In the race of life, of death, no runner is ahead, no runner behind.”

— Marty Rubin

321. “What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can’t control.”

— Marty Rubin

322. “Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one’s relationships.”

— Marty Rubin

323. “There is a madness that is joy and a madness that is just madness.”

— Marty Rubin

324. “Lifting my face toward the sun, I lift the weight of the world off my shoulders.”

— Marty Rubin

325. “Happiness lies in the physical life; sorrow in thought.”

— Marty Rubin

326. “Terrible dreams, wonderful life.”

— Marty Rubin

327. “Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.”

— Marty Rubin

328. “I like to think serious thoughts but I don’t like to take them seriously.”

— Marty Rubin

329. “Writing changes nothing, accomplishes nothing. I do it because I like it.”

— Marty Rubin

330. “The wise oyster stays in its shell.”

— Marty Rubin

331. “The only real and true understanding of life is to enjoy it.”

— Marty Rubin

332. “Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.”

— Marty Rubin

333. “Death is not a choice, even for the suicide.”

— Marty Rubin

334. “Walk slowly and deliberately during the day and take big steps at night.”

— Marty Rubin

335. “Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.”

— Marty Rubin

336. “Kindness is never more necessary than when it seems futile.”

— Marty Rubin

337. “Be unprepared, that’s my motto. Let life surprise you.”

— Marty Rubin

338. “No one is more beautiful to me than a person who’s easy to talk to.”

— Marty Rubin

339. “Just when you think progress has been made the same old lies come creeping around again.”

— Marty Rubin

340. “Beauty is nonchalance.”

— Marty Rubin

341. “Fear of boredom is the most scathing self-criticism.”

— Marty Rubin

342. “We should not judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should leave them the hell alone.”

— Marty Rubin

343. “The predictions of false prophets always come true.”

— Marty Rubin

344. “What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.”

— Marty Rubin

345. “What a betrayal of life, of sense, to choose hate over love, despair over happiness.”

— Marty Rubin

346. “There is nothing more provocative than indifference.”

— Marty Rubin

347. “One must resist the temptation to make oneself miserable.”

— Marty Rubin

348. “Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.”

— Marty Rubin

349. “The real miracle in human life is having emotions, being able to feel things.”

— Marty Rubin

350. “It is so relaxing to want nothing.”

— Marty Rubin