Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “In the race of life, of death, no runner is ahead, no runner behind.”

— Marty Rubin

352. “To sacrifice one’s unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.”

— Marty Rubin

353. “Self-censorship is the most insidious form of censorship.”

— Marty Rubin

354. “Enlightenment is simply the moment you realize how amazing it is to be alive.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

358. “Terrible dreams, wonderful life.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

361. “The wind goes nowhere and takes us with it.”

— Marty Rubin

362. “What joy compares with that of a bird that has just learned she can fly?”

— Marty Rubin

363. “To rebel is to be reborn.”

— Marty Rubin

364. “Lying makes a lot of people a lot of money. Lying is big business.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

366. “When you enjoy a thought or activity, it’s irrelevant whether it’s meaningful or not.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

371. “Never confuse being opinionated with having something to say.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

373. “Pretending is one of our greatest pleasures. But you have to know you’re pretending.”

— Marty Rubin

374. “Were it not for some basic misunderstanding no two people would ever fall in love.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

377. “Who wouldn’t live in utter despair if their sense of self depended entirely on the opinions of others?”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

379. “All extreme opinions consume themselves.”

— Marty Rubin

380. “Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold.”

— Marty Rubin

381. “Days one mindlessly fritters away are the best days.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

385. “All talk is small talk.”

— Marty Rubin

386. “A new religion with only one commandment: Thou shalt not tell others how to live.”

— Marty Rubin

387. “A touch communicates what can’t be said.”

— Marty Rubin

388. “Those who lack self-control always try to control others.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

390. “Let nothing human be considered divine.”

— Marty Rubin

391. “Don’t worry! Something always goes wrong.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

393. “Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy.”

— Marty Rubin

394. “Who does not despair when they think without acting?”

— Marty Rubin

395. “Win or lose, everyone has the right to play their cards their own way.”

— Marty Rubin

396. “When you’re happy you don’t think about it. You just are.”

— Marty Rubin

397. “One can’t find what isn’t lost and that’s why all this soul-searching is futile.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

400. “Cynic: a dead man walking.”

— Marty Rubin