Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

403. “We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

407. “Nothing is more seductive than nothing.”

— Marty Rubin

408. “Hiding only gives you away.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

416. “Prosperity killed the American Dream.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

418. “The skies give no warning when they fall.”

— Marty Rubin

419. “In Impermanence I trust.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

421. “Mutual helplessness is the essential relation between parent and child.”

— Marty Rubin

422. “One can steal everything from an artist except their talent.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

424. “Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

426. “You can’t dissect a joy without killing it.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

442. “Any casual observer can tell at a glance I’m not the person I think I am.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

448. “Writing is about preserving things, life is about letting go.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin