Top 500 Marty Rubin Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “In Impermanence I trust.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

403. “Cynic: a dead man walking.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

423. “Prosperity killed the American Dream.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

431. “Wise men count backward toward zero. They know that’s where contentment lies.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

435. “We’re all bewildered, but most bewildered of all are those who think they know the truth.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

437. “Laughter unties the Gordian Knot.”

— Marty Rubin

438. “Accidents are built into the road.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

440. “Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

448. “There is more to writing than playing with words.”

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin

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

— Marty Rubin