Daniel HandlerWell-read people are less likely to be evil.371HumanityReading
Daniel HandlerIt is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it … ▶372LifeThoughtTime
Daniel HandlerOne can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small wa… ▶361LifeTime
Daniel HandlerTo hear the phrase our only hope always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.361Hope
Daniel HandlerThe whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, becaus… ▶361Thought
Daniel HandlerIt was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.361Time
Daniel HandlerAll his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.361LifeReading
Daniel HandlerLove can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail. ✨ FaceBook post byDaniel Handler from Aug 23, 2011351LoveReading
Daniel HandlerThere was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I … ▶351LifeTime
Daniel HandlerNo reality has the power to dispel a dream.362PoliticsTruth
Daniel HandlerIt was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.352Truth
Daniel Handler...the moron who thought love was forever. ✨ Daniel Handler (2012). Why We Broke Up, p.170, Egmont UK352LoveThought
Daniel HandlerThere is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enj… ▶374Love
Daniel HandlerOftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.352HumanityTime
Daniel HandlerEverybody has a theory.352Death
Daniel HandlerThe way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.341Sadness
Daniel HandlerI will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of na… ▶341LifeLoveReading
Daniel HandlerSomeone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.341DeathLovePolitics
Daniel HandlerPeople aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. ✨ A … ▶374HumanityHumor
Daniel HandlerThey were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.341Reflection
Daniel HandlerBesides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in li… ▶352Life
Daniel HandlerTo Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that. ✨ A Series of Unfortunate Even… ▶352DeathLoveReading
Daniel HandlerYou might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water… ▶364Sadness
Daniel HandlerYou know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my… ▶364Philosophy
Daniel HandlerA bolt from the blue.342Politics
Daniel HandlerWe are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never i… ▶353Reflection
Daniel HandlerLove can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. ✨ Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid. Book by Dani… ▶365LoveReadingTruth
Daniel HandlerBut there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.376Time
Daniel HandlerIt is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.332HumanityLifeTruth
Daniel HandlerIt is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.365Politics
