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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?


Søren Kierkegaard

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ROALD DAHL You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
SALLY GARDNER That taught us how to block a sword with two knives. But what if an ax man's coming at me?"
Gi...
JOHN FLANAGAN We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT What If dead is another riddle??
Another matrix?
DEYTH BANGER What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
WOODY ALLEN But what if you're wrong?
What if there's more?
What if there's hope you never dreamed of ...
NICHOLE NORDEMAN What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
WOODY ALLEN Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."
Laila whispers, "He s...
KASIE WEST How have everything started???
Just two humans man and woman make so many people on the planet?...
DEYTH BANGER I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
DUNCAN JONES Believing in what you were told or what you heard can sometimes leads to a huge misunderstanding.
YANEES Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "Wha...
TOM CLANCY You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
SHANNON CELEBI What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
MARTY RUBIN I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. I...
ASHLEY TISDALE If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wi...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I ...
VICTORIA MORAN Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's lif...
DICK CLARK What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
RICK SANTELLI If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your oppo...
SHANNON L. ALDER Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you ...
JODI PICOULT When all's said and done tears and laughter are much the same thing. After all what difference is th...
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RICHARD RUSSO The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON If tears were painful, no one would cry.
BEN CAESAR It really doesn't matter if you were there from the start. What really matters is if you are there '...
CLYDE A. JOHNSON What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
ADAM FERRARA Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Every choice in life sets us on a different path and carries its own set of “what ifs” and conse...
A.J. DARKHOLME What if dragons breathed bubbles
and purred when they cuddled
and giggled at chivalrous ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH everyone's sphere became their own. If you were on the pile, you were appalled at what you saw in th...
EMILY CRAIG What if? What if things were different than the way you have seen them in the past?
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma...
TIMOTHY NOAH When I know what to do, everything is so easy.
LORRIN L. LEE I know what would you do if you were me but what would you do if you were you?
VIKRANT PARSAI There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...
SARAH DESSEN If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?
HOLLY CUPALA I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the ques...
K. A. APPLEGATE Life is what you make of it.
You have to decide what you want in life.
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UMBERTO ECO It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han...
MITCH HEDBERG People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gon...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it t...
FRANK ABAGNALE What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
BRENDAN FRASER My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You&#...
BEVERLY JOHNSON But if there was a protocol for how to say goodbye to your newly ex-boyfriend's brother, right after...
RACHEL VINCENT There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?&...
CHELSEA HANDLER I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien...
WALLACE SHAWN What if all the myths were true...
LIU KANG So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad t...
RICK RIORDAN What if we really were known by our love and not by the stereotypes? What if we became authentically...
BRIAN HARDIN And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
WILLIAM COWPER Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
MARVIN MINSKY What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS God needs me. What would happen if there weren’t people like me? If the world were perfect, if eve...
J.J. MCAVOY Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
CHARLES DE LINT What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in her...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what ...
GRAHAM NELSON That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi...
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LORD HALIFAX Was that Clarke really in there somewhere? The Clarke who could look so gravely serious one moment a...
KASS MORGAN If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge,...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES What if Tonya Harding were admitted back in U.S. figure skating?
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ERROL MORRIS If we did end up in a crisis where things were really tense, this decision about what is coming at y...
HANS KRISTENSEN What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe...
C. JOYBELL C. At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. Wha...
LARRY MCMURTRY Coming from the position we were in, we were very disrespected by it. It was just a big misunderstan...
SHANE MAY White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe.
If they did... everything would...
ERIK TANGHE What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say?
SVETLANA CHMAKOVA I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What i...
CAROLINE LEAVITT As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.
DEREK MAGYAR If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.
MEG COLLETT what matter most ? _ you . only you.everyday every event would pass by through your vein
LITYMUNSHI 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING It's premature to determine what mistakes were made, if any mistakes were made,
EDWIN FIGUEROA and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
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GEORGE W. BUSH If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success stor...
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ERROL MORRIS He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
LOIS LOWRY We'll check it out and answer their letter. If there's some misunderstanding, we'll change what we'r...
DON HAMBIDGE What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way eac...
DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they enginee...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It was exhilarating. If you were talented, it was easy to rise through the ranks if you knew what yo...
DIANA PETERS Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
ALFRED DE VIGNY It's really tough, but I try to keep my head high. Some of (my teammates) take it hard and say what ...
DEANNA HENRIOTT If there were a master of stupidity in this world,
I would really love to listen to his succes...
TOBA BETA

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Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
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SøREN KIERKEGAARD شایع ترین نوع نومیدی آن است که فرد نخواهد خودش باشد.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD A Swede quoting a Dane
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be that self which one truly is.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Once you label me you negate me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb crea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sle...
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SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
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