Quotes.
Just felt like putting together a post of all my favorite quotes...
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man."
"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
-James Dean
"Even for me, life had it's gleams of sunshine"
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
-More Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
I know you think I'm stupid, but I'm not dumb. I just let you and the other girls have your way because that's how you needed to be, but pretty soon we're all gonna graduate and I can start over, but it will be harder for the people who need this place to make themselves feel special. Who use high school to build themselves up and then find out that the real world doesn't care so much about who you were in high school.
-Bevin Prince, One Tree Hill (Pictures of You)
Sometimes I feel incredibly disconnected, really uncomfortable in my own skin or kind of like I don't fit into this world. Like I was born in the wrong time and I don't belong.
-Haley James-Scott, One Tree Hill (Pictures of You)
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
-E.E. Cummings
“Sometimes the greatest rewards in life ; come from doing the things that scare you the most”
-Whitey Durham, One Tree Hill
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we---
Of many far wiser than we---
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee,
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side,
Of my darling---my darling---my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
-Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
-A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Night by Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
"Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn't suck."
"With Buffy, I needed closure, because she, poor girl, had earned it. Buffy is about growing up. Angel is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption. Redemption is something you fight for every day, so I wanted him to go out fighting. People kept calling it a cliffhanger. I was like, "Are you mad, sir? Don't you see that that is the final statement?" And then they would say "Shut up.""
-Joss Whedon
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping...waiting... And though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead.
-Angelus, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do after that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
-Whistler-Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Becoming Part I)
If there's no glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters...then all that matters is what we do cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.
-Angel-ATVS (Epiphiany)
Why did he write to her,
"I can't live with you?"
And why did she write to him,
"I can't live without you"?
For he went west, she went east,
And they both lived.
-One Parting by Carl Sandburg
Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere--
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
-Joy by Carl Sandburg
Feel like sharing? Go ahead, they can be quotes by famous people, quotes from television, quotes from literature and so on.
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man."
"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
-James Dean
"Even for me, life had it's gleams of sunshine"
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.
-More Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
I know you think I'm stupid, but I'm not dumb. I just let you and the other girls have your way because that's how you needed to be, but pretty soon we're all gonna graduate and I can start over, but it will be harder for the people who need this place to make themselves feel special. Who use high school to build themselves up and then find out that the real world doesn't care so much about who you were in high school.
-Bevin Prince, One Tree Hill (Pictures of You)
Sometimes I feel incredibly disconnected, really uncomfortable in my own skin or kind of like I don't fit into this world. Like I was born in the wrong time and I don't belong.
-Haley James-Scott, One Tree Hill (Pictures of You)
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
-E.E. Cummings
“Sometimes the greatest rewards in life ; come from doing the things that scare you the most”
-Whitey Durham, One Tree Hill
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we---
Of many far wiser than we---
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee,
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side,
Of my darling---my darling---my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
-Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
-A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
-Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Night by Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
"Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn't suck."
"With Buffy, I needed closure, because she, poor girl, had earned it. Buffy is about growing up. Angel is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption. Redemption is something you fight for every day, so I wanted him to go out fighting. People kept calling it a cliffhanger. I was like, "Are you mad, sir? Don't you see that that is the final statement?" And then they would say "Shut up.""
-Joss Whedon
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping...waiting... And though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead.
-Angelus, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do after that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
-Whistler-Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Becoming Part I)
If there's no glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters...then all that matters is what we do cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.
-Angel-ATVS (Epiphiany)
Why did he write to her,
"I can't live with you?"
And why did she write to him,
"I can't live without you"?
For he went west, she went east,
And they both lived.
-One Parting by Carl Sandburg
Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere--
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
-Joy by Carl Sandburg
Feel like sharing? Go ahead, they can be quotes by famous people, quotes from television, quotes from literature and so on.