Top 200 Stewart Stafford Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.”

— Stewart Stafford

52. “If anyone at my funeral says ‘it’s what he would have wanted’, I’ll kick the lid off my coffin and throttle them. Or, if I’ve been cremated, I’ll flip the lid off the urn and become a dust storm in their eyes. Only you know what you truly want. Anything else is presumption skewed through personal agendas.”

— Stewart Stafford

53. “If you erased your past mistakes, you could purge your regrets with them, but you’d also wipe any lessons learned and any subsequent maturity gained. Don’t regret the minefields you stepped into, just try and learn not to step into the same one twice.”

— Stewart Stafford

54. “As the last human lay dying in their shallow grave, they fashioned a crude grave marker from wood. It read: “Man – Terroriser of Fish and Great Destroyer of all he made, found or was gifted.” They then covered themselves with earth and quietly passed away. Seeing this, God left the Universe and took the Sun with him.”

— Stewart Stafford

55. “Politics – a lucrative game for the ludicrous.”

— Stewart Stafford

56. “The gears of narcissism propel the dictator and how tempting it is to shift them into overdrive while drunk on power. The genocidal hangover comes later.”

— Stewart Stafford

57. “Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.”

— Stewart Stafford

58. “No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.”

— Stewart Stafford

59. “Ghosts are the manifestation of the longing of loss.”

— Stewart Stafford

60. “The best way to get an idea across to the public, however outlandish, is to have the courage to present it to them in the first place. It’s easy to get sidetracked by overthinking something or trying to second-guess the general populace because of doubts and fears. They will be the ultimate authority on what they like and don’t like in the end.”

— Stewart Stafford

61. “The seeds of our own destruction are often sown at birth or in childhood. We are too busy acquiring knowledge and living life to notice their presence. It is for our biographers, if we are of sufficient importance to have any, to highlight them to a post-mortem audience.”

— Stewart Stafford

62. “In the West, we’ve gone from living in holier-than-thou societies to more-liberal-than-thou ones. Call it secular piety but both are just different forms of the same sanctimoniousness.”

— Stewart Stafford

63. “Are those conspirators that you spy through your window or is it a mirror reflecting the chattering parasites in your mind?”

— Stewart Stafford

64. “Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water’s surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don’t know everything.”

— Stewart Stafford

65. “Loyalty comes before price or prize. If not, the ties that bind become constricting garrottes as creeping spinal flesh awaits a dagger’s thrust.”

— Stewart Stafford

66. “The lady bears a crust of rage as the ground bears hardened frost in the morning. Some days, ’t melts with warm persuasion, but on others, ’t lingers, and all is hollow ere its cold fury.”

— Stewart Stafford

67. “An assumption of flawlessness is the swiftest shortcut to disaster there is.”

— Stewart Stafford

68. “Never forget those who go out of their way to help or harm you.”

— Stewart Stafford

69. “From the Moon’s surface, the Earth is but a tiny, blue teardrop in the inky blackness of space.”

— Stewart Stafford

70. “The internet is the most important tool for disseminating information we’ve had since the invention of the printing press. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the best ways of stealing or suppressing information and for putting out misinformation.”

— Stewart Stafford

71. “Free will is never without charge and is costliest when an individual chooses selfishness and avarice over the common good. Some think animals dumb but mark the instinctive co-operation of insects while men murder and steal and tell me we are superior.”

— Stewart Stafford

72. “Death is not the villain of the piece. It is the next phase of life in unfamiliar clothing.”

— Stewart Stafford

73. “In war, the damage you inflict on the enemy might be immediately apparent. The damage you inflict on yourself in doing so will only become apparent later.”

— Stewart Stafford

74. “Every setback is a pitstop en route to nirvana.”

— Stewart Stafford

75. “Thou has’t all the symptoms of hubris but, alas, remaineth unw’rthy of the condition.”

— Stewart Stafford

76. “Whether it is rational or empirical, your approach to life must always be empathetic. Emotional intelligence is acquired when knowledge and empathy are combined and applied to situations regularly in everyday life.”

— Stewart Stafford

77. “You need to make a decision – are you are an imitator or an innovator?”

— Stewart Stafford

78. “Planet Earth – the universe’s verdant tightrope of consciousness for lonely homo sapiens to traverse.”

— Stewart Stafford

79. “Be suspicious of the litigious.”

— Stewart Stafford

80. “Rich people are notoriously cheap.”

— Stewart Stafford

81. “The world is glacial when it comes to recognising talent.”

— Stewart Stafford

82. “In the forbidden zone of interpretation, the tyranny of language becomes the poisoned-tip of the bureaucratic spear.”

— Stewart Stafford

83. “The Holocaust happened because of the constructed belief in one untrue conspiracy theory, and the denial of its genocide afterward came from the creation and propagation of another.”

— Stewart Stafford

84. “They say that you’re not the same person once you get married on your wedding day. On your wedding night, however, you’re definitely not feeling yourself anymore.”

— Stewart Stafford

85. “People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.”

— Stewart Stafford

86. “Cats are unpredictable as they don’t know what they’re going to do next until they make it happen through nosiness, invention, acrobatics, and sheer force of will.”

— Stewart Stafford

87. “There’s only one thing worse than never having found love, and that’s finding it and having it taken away from you – then you truly know what you’ve lost.”

— Stewart Stafford

88. “Gloomy days, whether meteorological or psychological, lend themselves more to the creation of Gothic horror. On those insular days, the mind gravitates towards the unseen and the subconscious. Days of blinding sunshine banish the desire to ruminate and it is replaced with a longing to participate in the outside world.”

— Stewart Stafford

89. “Theology is a study of the series of disagreements that are the world’s religions. Atheism fundamentally disagrees with these disagreements that preceded it.”

— Stewart Stafford

90. “A hanging typically occurs after someone is found guilty in the eyes of the law and irredeemable in the eyes of society. A lynching is the killing of an individual for how they look and what they represent to a vigilante mob.”

— Stewart Stafford

91. “When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.”

— Stewart Stafford

92. “The thespian is an impostor, but the paying crowd colludes fully in the fraud as they seek to leave real problems behind to indulge in the fictitious ones of another. Hence adulation towards a performer starts.”

— Stewart Stafford

93. “Life’s so much simpler when you’re dead!”

— Stewart Stafford

94. “Writers strive to create definitive statements but forget that their work is often viewed through the cracked spectacles of perception. Others can take what is written, twist it to their own agenda and present it back to the author as fact, contrary to the original intention.”

— Stewart Stafford

95. “Europe is a functioning paradox – it gave the world most of its laws, societal structures, and culture but was also the cradle of two world wars and the Holocaust.”

— Stewart Stafford

96. “Never confuse precision with simplicity – the best people make highly-complex things seem easy through natural ability.”

— Stewart Stafford

97. “Imagination is one of the strongest tools we’ve got. Keep yours sharp by using it often.”

— Stewart Stafford

98. “A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery.”

— Stewart Stafford

99. “Rebellion is the first step on the path to originality.”

— Stewart Stafford

100. “A life well-lived is not measured by material possessions or the size of the funeral turnout. The quantity and depth of laugh lines on the face of the person lying in repose in their coffin reveals a life’s true worth.”

— Stewart Stafford