What literature quote would you get tattooed?
 

So I've been thinking about tattoos lately and thought for my first one I'd like a book quote, but I haven't decided yet on what to get. I looked around for ideas and this is a great collection: http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2008/04/a-...y-tattoos.html

I especially love the "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." I also think the "DON'T PANIC." one was pretty awesome as well. I haven't decided yet, but what would you get tattooed/have had tattooed?

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"

Not from a book, but that's irrelevant really :" When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."

Bukowski: "The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative."

Hunter S. Thompson: "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "

None, it's a dumb idea.

I don't have any literature quotes tattooed on me but I have part of a song lyric.

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" (Poe) is tattooed on the inside of my left arm, "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die" (Lovecraft) is on the inside of my right arm.

28:06:42:12

WTF?

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Twenty eight days, six hours, forty two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.

Says who?
Countdown starts from when?

It's from Donny Darko...

"A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself."

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"

or....
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish


or


42

I like Douglas Adams as well!

I prefer "42"!

My, my.. T.S Eliot quotes. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood, and those are a couple of lines that's right up that alley.

I have this tattooed on my ankle.

I have made up a new paradigm for determining who goes to heaven, and who to hell. I think it'll catch on pretty easily, as it's simple and isn't bogged down by annoying nuances like the kind you get with a lot of scripture, ten commandments and all that. Basically, everyone gets to go to heaven except for the people with references to Donnie Darko tattooed on their bodies.

Donnie Darko is on my list of most overrated movies ever.

Unrelated to tattoos, but I love Donnie Darko because the film was more or less a serendipity. The original version, even with less than fantastic special effects, had a really cool surreal thing going for it that was in my opinion completely butchered in the "Director's Cut". It was to me an example of the very person who created something having no idea just how cool what he made was, or what made it so amazing.

Oh, and fuck Gary Jules.

Leave the hall.

I make no apology for my refusal to appreciate that song. I honestly think Wesley Willis could have covered that track more effectively.

Thank you. And thank you.
Me, I'm not one for quotes or song lyrics at the mo. I'm still working out my next tat project.

it's trite as all hell but "Do as ye wilt"

its not a lit quote, but I have thought about "In This Moment, I am Within Temptation"with the logos of both bands.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. - Karl Marx

I have Millay's "First Fig" tattooed on my back.

I'm also thinking about getting a Fountainhead tattoo soon, but not sure yet.

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"

There is a painting by Suloni Robertson titled Gate to Hell with that quote. He actually has a lot of work inspired by The Inferno.

I like "first fig", but I wouldn't get that inked.

It would make a fantastic tramp stamp.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss

LOL well, since I think tramp stamps are just that, I was thinking higher on the back, over the shoulder blades. Honestly, that painting is part of a back piece I've been giving a lot of thought to.

God ist tot

I hate to be pedantic, but that will make you look stupid. It's "Gott ist tot".

"Youth is the only thing worth having"

Actually getting this done soon down my side, I'll appreciate the irony of it when I can no longer read it when I'm a saggy skinned old man.

Like, the whole novel?

LOLJKJKBFF!

I want "Tatoos are gay" on my left arm 'cos thats trendy lol.

"to thine own self, be true."

That phrase has powered me for much of my adult life.

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If I had to, probably something out of Heart of Darkness.

Love Heart of Darkness.

I would probably choose "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's." from Crime and Punishment. There are a lot of quotes I like in that book though, so I'm not quite sure. I've also considered quotes from Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Same here. Probably
"We live, as we dream - alone."
or
"The horror! The horror!"
The other ones seem a bit too long for a tattoo.

The problem is that all the good quotes...are good.
So everyone likes them.
So everyone has them.

For example, I've loved Sylvia Plath since forever, and I never knew how popular she was until about six years ago. I toyed strongly with the idea of getting "I Am, I Am, I Am" incorporated in a tattoo but everyone and their mama got that one.

Just like Vonnegut's "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt".

Think about it this way, when we're old our tattoos will sag and look bad, but no one can say anything if everyone in the nursing home has the exact same thing, amiright?

We're going to be a hilarious old generation. I'm sure even Malice can find a place where he won't look weird when his plug starts dragging down the rest of his face.

Probably the whole book of Head game. In that case, I won't have to wear clothes and I can make sure that I'm the only one who has that kind of tattoo.

I've always wanted four quotes tattooed, but I've settled on just getting two of them. Now it's to figure out which two.

"No human thing is of serious importance." - The Republic
"Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense." - Human, All Too Human
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Foundation

I'm getting a Sandman-based tattoo soon. It's gonna be great.

Sandman isn't literature.