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"