These are some of my favorite quotes, lyrics, etc. Some of them mean a lot to me...some are just amusing...you'll probably recognize a few from the footers of my pages...enjoy!
"Very few things matter and nothing matters very much."
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more."
Steven Morrissey.
"Face down, arms out, nailed to the cross of doubt...blood runs like rain, drowning for this world in vain...crown of black thorns, human skin ripped and torn...where is your saviour now?"
Burton Bell.
"I've got nothing to do but hang around and get screwed up on you."
Andrew Cairns.
"I'd like to thank you all for nothing...I'd like to thank you all for nothing at all..."
Jeff Tweedy.
"If we sleep together, would you like me better?"
Shirley Manson.
"Someone kindly told me that you'd wasted eight of nine lives..."
Steven Morrissey.
"You can run, call the cops, cry your eyes out, give them the lot...you can say I marked your face, but you do these things to yourself anyway...I can never be with you...this is over..."
Andrew Cairns.
"I was angry when I met you...I think I'm angry still..."
Shirley Manson.
"I reserve the right to live my life this way and I don't give a damn when I hear people say I'll pay the price that others paid, 'cos it's worth it...yes, it's worth living for..."
Neil Tennant.
"Without you they'll never know...without you my life won't grow...without you they'll never show...without you the night won't go...without you I'm left alone...without you I'm on my own...without you my life's a waste...just for you I've left my place...without you I'm left alone...without you I'm on my own...without you I lay here in pain...without you I've gone insane..."
Bernard Sumner.
"And I hope that you die, and your death will come soon...I'll follow your casket in the pale afternoon...and I'll watch as you're lowered into your deathbed...and I'll stand over your grave until I'm sure that you're dead."
Bob Dylan.
"And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death, and neither one particularly appeals to me...and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie in the middle of the street and die...I'd lie down and die."
Steven Morrissey.
"I would die for you...I will kill for you...I will steal for you...I'd do time for you...I will wait for you...I'd make room for you...I'd sail ships for you...to be close to you...to be part of you...'cos I believe in you...I believe in you...I would die for you..."
Shirley Manson.
"I've had the poison leak into my skin and it corroded my heart away...bled away...cut away...dark night of my soul..."
Burton Bell.
"I hate it when she makes me feel (she tears strips off me)...crippled, lost and vulnerable every time I think of you..."
Andrew Cairns.
"Maybe you will write me a letter, and tell me why I never met you...our rendezvous just ended in sorrow...without you, there's no tomorrow..."
Bernard Sumner.
"He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate."
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"I don't know if the billions will survive, but I'll believe in God when 1+1=5; my moniker is man and I'm rotten to the core, I'll tear down the building just to pass through the door."
Brett Gurewitz.
"I can't take it anymore, this 'it' I've become...this is it like I get, and my life's gone numb...I just keep moving my mouth...I just keep moving my feet...I say 'I'm loving you to death' like I'm losing my breath...and all the smiles that I wear...and all the games that I play...and all the drinks that I mix...and I drink 'til I'm sick...and all the faces I make...and all the shapes that I throw...and all the people I meet...and all the words that I know makes me sick to the heart...I feel so tired...and the way the rain comes down hard...that's how I feel inside..."
Robert Smith.
"We had a party in our hotel last night...it ended up in an awful fight...my friend left me and my heart too...I hope I don't end up like you..."
Bernard Sumner.
"My tongue is twisted from talking, my feet are blistered from walking alone, my head is bursting with thoughts and every bruise feels so familiar..."
Andrew Cairns.
"I am sick and I am dull, and I am plain...how dearly I'd love to get carried away...but dreams have a knack of just not coming true, and time is against me now..."
Steven Morrissey.
"I spent my hatred every place, on every work, on every face...someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace..."
Leonard Cohen.
"Like the naked leads the blind, I know I'm selfish, I'm unkind...sucker love I always find, someone to bruise and leave behind..."
Brian Molko.
"Do what you want, but don't do it around me; idleness and dissipation breed apathy. I sit on my ass all goddamn day, a misanthropic anthropoid with nothing to say...say what you must, do all you can, break all the fucking rules then go to hell with Superman and die like a champion..."
Brett Gurewitz.
"I go through all this before you wake up, so I can feel happier to be safe up here with you...safe up here with you..."
Bjork.
"Man is only man at the surface. Remove his skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery."
Paul Valery.
"There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain."
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: with the help of it one has got through many a bad night."
Friedrich Nietzsche.
" 'I remain true to myself.' Exactly. That is your misfortune. Would that, just once, you could be untrue to yourself."
Friedrich Hebbel.
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
Oscar Wilde.
"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too."
William Shakespeare.
"What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice."
Charles Baudelaire.
"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three."
Alexandre Dumas.
"To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike."
Diane de Poitiers.
"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."
Hector Berlioz.
"I wonder why murder is considered less immoral than fornication in literature."
George Moore.
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from such things."
T.S. Eliot.
"Any book which is at all important should be reread immediately."
Arthur Schopenhauer.
"Music is essentially useless, as life is."
George Santayana.
"The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."
Oscar Wilde.
"Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
"The idealist is incorrigible--if he is turned out of his heaven, he makes an ideal of his hell."
Friedrich Nietzsche.
"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."
Samuel Butler II.
"Every abstract thinker tears love and time asunder."
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy.
"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
"A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner."
Marquis of Halifax (George Savile).
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
Charles Fisher.
"Every dream is a personalized myth; every myth a depersonalized dream."
Joseph Campbell.
"Josephine..."
Napoleon Bonaparte (dying words).
"Go on, get out...last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
Karl Marx.
"And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead."
Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort (suicide note).
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
John Milton.
"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torment of man."
Friedrich Nietzsche.
"I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell...you see, I have friends in both places."
Mark Twain.
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Robert Frost.
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
C.S. Lewis.
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."
Eric Hoffer.
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
Oscar Wilde.
"Love will make you forget time, and time will make you forget love."
Unknown.
"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
Neil Gaiman.
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