Favorite Quotes

[Slap Your Love]

Ah, my thread was reborn, good, I enjoy quotes very much as was pondering why the thread died. =S

Also this quote here ^ Jilian is great, almost a poem rather breathtaking. =]

[Linen]

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
- Carl Jung

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
-Carl Jung

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
- B. F. Skinner

"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." -Rita Rudner

[Slap Your Love]

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
-Plato

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
-Oscar Wilde

"He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about."
-Oscar Wilde

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
-Emily Dickinson

"To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!"---Emily Dickinson

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
-Mark Twain

[THE RED BASTARD]

"only the insane persevere. only those who persevere may truly say what is sane."

[An Eccentric Cellist]

"No day but today,"~ Jonathon Larson(is God)

"Honey, it felt weird because you are weird."~ the world's greatest English teacher ever

It's an inside joke but "Break a Window!" it is now rather cliche to those who know it's meaning, a very elite group of drama geeks, literature geeks, and musicians, but it's brilliant none the less.

"I am not a statistic and niether are you."~ my mother

"Merry Christmas, bitches!"~ I don't remember but I know it's from the movies version of RENT

"We are not band geeks! We are orch dorks!"~ a fellow cellist who at the moment should be in Austria with her orchestra

"I have PMS and a gun. Now what were you saying?"~ a button

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."~ a different button

[deathbecomesme]

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah nietzsche one of the great philosher every...

[Godslayer Jillian]

Haha, I liked the one by RED BASTARD and deathbecomesme.
Seems like something I would say.

[An Eccentric Cellist]

Yes, it does.

[Tumor]

"People are stupid; They will believe anything as truth, either because they want it to be true, or because they fear that it is true." - Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind.

[LostAndCrazy]

"Religion is the opiate of the masses." - Karl Marx.

[Ictum]

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill

"In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche


I particularly like the last one, since I'm a firm believer that for feelings to have their power, the opposite side must co-exist and be, or, used to be, dominant. (if you get what I mean?).

For example: For true happiness to exist there must be true desperation.
To fully appreciate something one must experience the opposite.

Gezh, my english is failing me . Could easily have written this ten times better in swedish, but then again, that wouldn't help anyone, would it.

P.S: That doesn't mean I approve of self-harm.

[Tumor]

"You destroy yourself, and no one remembers you. You destroy another, and you suddenly become infamous." - me.

[Child_of_Fury]

"Abashed, the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is..." John Milton: Paradise Lost

"Sô desu ka?" Hakuin, a Zen-master. Translation: "Is that so?"

"Make mistakes. That's what youth is for, after all. Do not waste it." Auron

"And suddenly, I heard a tap, as if someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." Edgar Allan Poe

"A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned." Siddartha Gautama

[MollyMac]

"What Fresh Hell is this?"- Dorothy Parker

[#1158374]

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205

[Slap Your Love]

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
-Oscar Wilde

"Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best."
-Oscar Wilde

Rofl...

[om3gag0th666]

"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
W. H. Auden

[Draconysius]

"The birth of individuality is ecstasy, also is death. In love, individuality is slain; who loves not love? Love death therefore, and long for it eagerly. Die daily." -Rozz Williams, spoken-word

"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
(I took that one from deathbecomesme's sig.)

[Mir]

'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.' - Robert M. Pirsig

[MollyMac]

"... they gave nothing away. And they knew that their enemies were those that did."- Peter S. Beagle

[Circle V]

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Truth is subject to too much analysis.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.

--Frank Herbert



There are no facts, only interpretations.

Man is the cruelest animal.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

-Friedrich Nietzsche



Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

"All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

--Mark Twain



Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

A witty saying proves nothing.

--Voltaire



Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
--Anonymous

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[HumanePain]

Originally Posted by Circle V

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.

--Frank Herbert

I appreciate the rest of your quotes, but the most significant quote, that rings the most solemn and rings the longest throughout my 50 years is this one you posted CircleV. I am certain I will suffer this to the end of my days.

Thanks.

[deathbecomesme]

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Circle V]

Originally Posted by MollyMac

"What Fresh Hell is this?"- Dorothy Parker

This originally came from Shakespeare, I believe.

[Crying_Crimson_Tears]

I like to remember this one my dad always uses:

"Positive thinking, positive results."

Not sure who orginally said it if someone did, but I like to try to remember it throughout my day.