Favorite Quotes

[devenir abeille]

Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity

"Dying
is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well."
-Sylvia Plath

"Curiouser and curiouser."
-Lewis Carroll

Ah, I do adore them both!


"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."
-Sylvia Plath

[The Antichrist]

"The dead travel fast"

-riding the bullet

[TurquoiseXx]

"A man will die, but not his ideas." - from a song called Happy Nation by Ace of Base.

[LilMizNitemare]

"Yes, I'm cute as can be but you know what? I can still kick your ass boy."--LilMizNitemare

"One owes respect to the living. To the dead one owes only truth."--Voltaire

"Life is a disease: birth and death the symptoms."--James O'Barr

"It's the cute quiet ones you've got to worry about. They're the ones who'll go postal on your ass and try to kill you with a spork."--my friend Chris, referring to me

[TheBloodEternity]

"My mum always said: "It's a dog eat dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Please don't do that. Stop embarrassing me in front of the neighbors. Maybe it would best if you leave home and never come back!" She wasn't even really my mum. She bought me from a man..."

-Valentine from Mirrormask.


"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-Opening lines of Call of the Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft

[a morbid curiosity]

Originally Posted by devenir abeille

Ah, I do adore them both!


"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."
-Sylvia Plath

YES. Love Sylvia Plath.

[Saya]

Originally Posted by TheBloodEternity

"My mum always said: "It's a dog eat dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Please don't do that. Stop embarrassing me in front of the neighbors. Maybe it would best if you leave home and never come back!" She wasn't even really my mum. She bought me from a man..."

-Valentine from Mirrormask.

XD I forgot about that part. Man I have to hunt down the person I lent that dvd to.

[LiUsAiDh]

Basically everything Salvador Dali said!

'At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.'
Salvador Dali

'Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.'
Salvador Dali

'Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.'
Salvador Dali

'Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.'
Salvador Dali

'Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.'
Salvador Dali

'I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.'
Salvador Dali

'I don't do drugs. I am drugs.'
Salvador Dali

'I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.'
Salvador Dali

'I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.'
Salvador Dali

'In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.'
Salvador Dali

'Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.'
Salvador Dali

'Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.'
Salvador Dali

'It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.'
Salvador Dali

'Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.'
Salvador Dali

'Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.'
Salvador Dali

'Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.'
Salvador Dali

'The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.'
Salvador Dali

'The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.'
Salvador Dali

'The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.'
Salvador Dali

'The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.'
Salvador Dali

'The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.'
Salvador Dali

'There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.'
Salvador Dali

'Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.'
Salvador Dali

'We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.'
Salvador Dali

'What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.'
Salvador Dali

*sigh*

[TheBloodEternity]

I love Dali!

[a morbid curiosity]

I like Le Corbusier more.

[devenir abeille]

Originally Posted by TheBloodEternity

"My mum always said: "It's a dog eat dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Please don't do that. Stop embarrassing me in front of the neighbors. Maybe it would best if you leave home and never come back!" She wasn't even really my mum. She bought me from a man..."

-Valentine from Mirrormask.


"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-Opening lines of Call of the Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft

Both very lovely quotes! I love that movie so much ;_;

[TheBloodEternity]

I like you.

[CandyKorns]

"Sometimes I feel like a vampire" by Ted Bundy.

[parasitejeans]

"Work is the antidote for sorrow"
~ Sherlock Holmes ~

[Nocturne Midnight]

"If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. "
-- Friedrich Nietzche

"Those who fight monsters must be careful not to become monsters themselves"
-- Friedrich Nietzche

"Is that Gasoline I smell?"
--Eric Draven from The Crow

[bluey-green-vein]

"god is dead" Friedrich Nietzche

"Hush little baby, shh, don't say a word. Daddy's gonna buy you a BIG BLACK BIRD! " Ash Corvin (The Crow COA)

"Life is just a dream on the way to death." Sarah (The Crow COA)

"Whats the difference between you and me?" Luc Crush
"I'm Dead" Jimmy Cuervo (The Crow WP)

"This is not a pipe" Rene Magritte

not all my favourites but some of them

[bluey-green-vein]

"god is dead" Friedrich Nietzche

"Hush little baby, shh, don't say a word. Daddy's gonna buy you a BIG BLACK BIRD! " Ash Corvin (The Crow COA)

"Life is just a dream on the way to death." Sarah (The Crow COA)

"Whats the difference between you and me?" Luc Crush
"I'm Dead" Jimmy Cuervo (The Crow WP)

"This is not a pipe" Rene Magritte

not all my favourites but some of them

[$haDe]

My quote....

Your kindness and charming humorous have been eclipsed by cold vengence and unparalleled rage. Beneath the wall of wrath,you've created, lives the widely open mind of a childish boy who has embraced the shadow of anger. You've become somebody you are not.Feels no remorse and fears no consequence.One might even say you are no longer alive. I shall therefore keep a close eye on your cure and protected you with all my heart and strenght.

[Waning]

"We don't need guns we're wearing protective herbs"- Red Dwarf

[Saya]

"You know how matters stand with and how, as I conceive, they might be arranged for our common interest; and I maintain I ought not to fail in my suit because I am not your lover, for lovers repent of the kindnesses which they have shown, when their love is over." -Plato, Phaedrus

"What mighty contests rise from trivial things" -Alexander Pope

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" -Milton, Paradise Lost

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." -Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
-Shakespeare, King Richard III (Act 1 Scene 3)


Well Shakespeare is full of goodies anyway ^_^

[stolide]

"Nothing is true, and everything is permitted"

Liber Null, although it is likely someone else said it first.

"Out- out are the lights- out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm."

E.A. Poe, the Conqueror Worm.

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. "

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu.

[A Simple Poet]

I have three.

"He took one hard look at my ass and then played golf for awhile" - Alanis Morrisette.

I dig how she worked that into a song. And on a related note there's Nena:

"Everyone's a superhero, everyone's a Captain Kirk."

And finally, on a more literary note for the sake of this thread, there is old Mark Twain.

"Don't tell fish stories where people don't know you, but especially don't tell them where people know the fish."

[$haDe]

"Live your life fully, Laugh and cry with all your heart. Life doesn't last forever"

[gothicusmaximus]

"I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no longer young; and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may."

The best part of Dracula. In before shitheads whine that gothic novels suck and Chuck Palahniuk is the only good author.

[LiUsAiDh]

I heard this one today and quite liked it:

'Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.'
Lance Armstrong