Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “You can’t dissect a joy without killing it.”

— Marty Rubin

402. “Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.”

— Marty Rubin

403. “When night falls, does it make a sound?”

— Marty Rubin

404. “When planning the new Utopia, be sure to take the emotions into account.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

406. “Even in the most barren desert one would still feel one’s heart beating.”

— Marty Rubin

407. “Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.”

— Marty Rubin

408. “An echo has no voice of its own.”

— Marty Rubin

409. “There are no gods, thank god, but there are dandelions. Go out and pick some.”

— Marty Rubin

410. “It is easy, too easy, to prefer books to people, since books are so much easier to understand.”

— Marty Rubin

411. “Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

420. “Nothing calms an anxious mind like a little mindless entertainment.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

422. “Cynic: a dead man walking.”

— Marty Rubin

423. “Some creatures, like bees, seem to exist for a purpose; while others, like butterflies, seem to exist just to exist.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

425. “When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

427. “No life lacks grandeur if you claim it as your own.”

— Marty Rubin

428. “You can quarrel with a person’s ideas, but not with their experience.”

— Marty Rubin

429. “Ideas are like money: people kill for ideas.”

— Marty Rubin

430. “Speech is the beginning of love, touch its consummation.”

— Marty Rubin

431. “Culture-the collective delusions of a people.”

— Marty Rubin

432. “How is failure possible? One is always just beginning to live.”

— Marty Rubin

433. “All this fighting over ideas is absolutely useless. You have to remove yourself.”

— Marty Rubin

434. “All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time.”

— Marty Rubin

435. “Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.”

— Marty Rubin

436. “My greatest pleasure is to travel down an unfamiliar road.”

— Marty Rubin

437. “The unemotional life is not worth living.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

440. “Relax. Your battle with the world is just a fiction in your head.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

443. “The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

448. “Prosperity killed the American Dream.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin