The Daily Rant archive
Past sermons
Every quote LaDiabla has put on trial, newest first. Missed a day? She didn't.
- Halloween: Amnesty for Your Inner Whore
- “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche, in Twilight of the Idols (1889)
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” Anaïs Nin, in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3 (1939–1944)
- “Sleep when you're dead.” someone who's going to be dead a lot sooner
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde, in The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
- “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” Charles Bukowski, in “How Is Your Heart?” (The Last Night of the Earth Poems, 1992)
- “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Edison, or so the story goes
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune, 1997 (no, Eleanor Roosevelt didn't say it, the internet is full of shit)
- “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, Letter 13