Quotes
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - James D. Miles
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright
"talking about music is like dancing about architecture"
"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chainin...g a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security, and you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure… that you really are strong, and you really do have worth"
- Veronica A. Shoffstall
"Its not all about your image. None of it means anything unless people see who you really are. And your music has to be who you really are. Its gotta show how you feel or it doesn't mean anything"
-Shane Gray on Camp Rock
"Live like you're on the bottom even when you're at the top"
- The Jonas Brothers
"The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity"
- Wayne Dyer
"I remember [...] the Sex Pistols saying that 'no one is innocent'. Too true. What also has to be said though, is that some are more guilty than others."
-Irvine Welsh
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
-Ernest Hemingway
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
-Ernest Hemingway
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo
"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."
-American Beauty [movie]
"Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving."
-Cory Anderson
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
-"De Profundis," Oscar Wilde
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
-Oscar Wilde
"I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?"
-"Prozac Nation,"
"...I felt sad, because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something that nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
-Dana-Christene Umanetz
"...and sometimes I have really bad days...when, you know, I just want to hide or scream or bleed or something..."
-Sandman
"Light up this cigarette
Tonight I will sleep with a gun in my mouth."
-"Love to Hate, Hate to Me," Static Lullaby
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"The question isn't 'who is going to let me'; it's 'who is going to stop me.'"
-"The Foutainhead," Ayn Rand
"And you must know we do not really change over time; we are as flowers unfolding; we merely become more nearly ourselves."
-"Queen of the Damned," Anne Rice
"I'd rather
taste blood, yours, or mine, flowing
from a sudden slash, than cut all day
with blunt scissors on dotted lines
like the teacher told."
-"On Edges," Adrienne Rich
"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."
-"Choke," Chuck Palahniuk
"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
-"Fight Club," Chuck Palahniuk
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
-"The Bell Jar," Sylvia Plath
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
-Sylvia Plath
"Hemingway has this classic moment in the 'Sun Also Rises' when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, all he can say is "gradually then suddenly", my life is like that to... you wake up one morning afraid you're going to live."
-Prozac Nation
"Good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are."
-"His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass," Philip Pullman
"What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on, I can no longer believe you."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble' deligate; when in charge' ponder
--james H. Borden
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go
-- T.S. Eliot
It isn't our position, but our disposition that makes us happy
-Anonymous
To the well organised mind death is but the next great adventure
Just becuase you make a mistake doesn't mean that you are a mistake.
The only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Of course it is happening inside your head... But why on earth should that means that it is not real? - Dumbledore HPDH
sometimes knowing that certain people are out there changes and gives you that extra boost that you need. - Gerard BBC Radio 1 interview 4/07
Its not in the songs you sing, its not in the books you read and
its not even in the good and bad deeds you inflict...it is what
motivates you to do so that makes up your character.
Anticipation is the purest form of pleasure and the most reliable.
Losing your way on the journey is unfortunate. But losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Not all death is dying.
The discomfort of uncertainty is the most precious part of the experience.
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection." Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
Hope is a fragile thing. But it sticks in the back of your head. It pulses through your legs and can make you run up the stairs instead of taking the elevator.
Wentz
The volume is loud but the screen isn't on. Just so noone can hear me thinking.
Wentz
the ghosts of everything follow us everywhere.
Wentz
whats the point of walking the plank on a sinking ship?
Wentz