42.

"The light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
           -Waiting for Godot (Pozzo)

"And where are we really – there or here?"
          -Watership Down (Fiver)

"'They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed."
          -The Great Gatsby (Daisy)

"Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you –just a tad – off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how tightly you grip the wheel, no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much –too tiring– and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy…or whatever…to happen."
          -Th1rteen R3asons Why

"Sanity is not statistical."
          -1984

"Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope."
         -I Am Legend

"Few people realize the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material world swims."
         -The War of the Worlds

"He picked up the jug and frowned into it. 'Almost empty. In a bit I'll go buy more, but first we'll drink this up. That way, if the shop is closed or I break my neck on the landlord's unsafe stairs, at least we'll have enjoyed the final cup. That's the elven way, Jill, and is it truly heartless, to enjoy today when no man knows what evil the morrow will bring?'"
          -The Dragon Revenant (Salamander)

"There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the Earth."
          -The Illiad

"But it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
          -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"We're all mad here!"
          -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Cheshire Cat)

41.

"Oh, he's magnetic, he's charming; you could fall into his eyes. Let's face it: his sex appeal was unbearably strong. I wanted to know him - - - the thoughts, the ideas behind the handsome, confident, wise-cracking mask."

    -Sylvia Plath, #18

40.

3/15/11

It's so sad to have such little faith in the future of humanity and of the world. I can't really comprehend how people can be so ignorant, so greedy, so selfish, so uncaring. Yet there must be many of them for the world to be in the state that it is.

39.

2/8/11

Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses


"I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time."
          -Wendy O. Williams

"Life has become unbearable... forgive me."
          -Dalida

"Things just went wrong too many times."
          -Tony Hancock

"And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead."
          -Nicholas Chamfort

2/15/11

Like Everything Else I Do It Exceptionally Well

Thank you for not caring. Not asking how I was. Not offering help. Not trying to be there. Not acknowledging any of the things I do. I’m sure you understand how fucking hard I’ve worked. I’m glad I tried so hard. I can tell you appreciated it so much. But, you know, I’m done now. You can do it on your own. You can wish you helped. I sure wish you would have. But it’s too late now.

Fuck you.

 

38.

This song pretty much describes my attitude towards all relationships. I honestly don't see it as that pessimistic of a view, more realistic. The only person you can depend on absolutely is yourself.

It's also a fantastic song regardless of the lyrics.

...Not Forever by Tsunami Bomb

"Who'll be there when I need someone? Count on nobody and no one will let you down. I don't care, just let me go. I don't need this anymore."

"Love is not forever. Friendship is not forever. There is nothing set in stone. You're on your own."

"Dependence is followed by weakness, don't be your own hostage. If I know so many. Why don't they know me? They don't know me!"

"Just take a look at your life! You're all alone!"

"Now I know what we're made of; confusion, complication and uncertainty. I thought this was real I was wrong, so I don't know."

"Who'll be there when I have no one? Don't expect that anyone will go out of their way. I don't care that I'm all alone. I don't need this anymore."

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37.

This is my collection of Shakespeare quotes. I prefer to find obscure quotes from within books/plays/movies that speak to me personally, but most of these are pretty famous. Regardless, I think they're worthy of posting.

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
           -Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II

"…Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O, no! It is the ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
          -Sonnet 116

"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet."
           -Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene I

"So they lov'd as love is twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distinct, divisions none…"
          -The Phoenix and the Turtle

"Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt thy love."
          -Hamlet, Act II, Scene II

"To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to – 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life,
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weaery life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."
          -Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."
          -MacBeth, Act I, Scene III

"This above all to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man."

          -Hamlet, Act I, Scene III

36.

"There comes a time when all your outlets are blocked, as with wax. You sit in your room, feeling the prickling ache in your body which constricts your throat, tightens dangerously in little tear pockets behind your eyes. One word, one gesture, and all that is pent up in you - festered resentments, gangrenous jealousies, superfluous desires - unfulfilled - all that will burst out of you in angry impotent tears - in embarrassed sobbing and blubbering to no one in particular. No arms will enfold you, no voice will say, "There, There. Sleep and forget." ... An outlet you need, and they are sealed. You live day and night in the dark cramped prison you have made for yourself."

    -Plath, #104

35.

Adema - Freaking Out

"I was so much an outcast, no one ever liked me 'cause I wasn't wanted. I was so different from the rest of them all."

"Why am I even trying? I'm crying out, I'm crying out. I cannot seem to keep from freaking out. Spinning round, spinning round, I've fallen down. I cannot seem to keep from freaking out."

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34.

"You were a happy dream in a life that was nothing but a hellish nightmare. Those days I spent with you, they were the only good days I've ever known. I cherish them."

    -Lucy (Elfen Lied)

33.

This poem appeared twice in The Fellowship of the Ring. I particularly like the second line.


All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
          -J.R.R. Tolkien

32.

12/10/09

How can it be right to believe something that is untrue, even if it makes you happy? It's not… but who am I to say that it is untrue. Fact says it is untrue. Life says it is untrue. All signs lead to its falsity. It's not right. It's so aggravating. But I still feel empty and I'm sure lies would fill my holes.. but I don't want lie-filled holes. I don't want bandaids; I want skin.

31.

"With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die."

    -Sylvia Plath, #8

30.

"We can always learn more than we know, but we can never be sure that we have reached any final truth."
         -Xenophanes

"Everything is becoming, nothing is."
          -Plato

"There is only one world that we can do any philosophizing about, and that is this world we live in and experience… Whatever is outside all possibilities of experience for us can be nothing for us. We have no validateable way of referring to it, or talking about it, and therefore it cannot enter into our discourse in any reliable way: if we stray beyond the ground covered by experience, we wander into empty talk."
          -Aristotle

"Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence is there evil?"
          -Epicurus

29.

Hohoemi no Bakudan (Smile Bomb) - Matsuko Mawatari

"In a crowded city, as I bump shoulders, I'm alone. On an endless prairie, as the wind whistles by, I'm all alone. Which one is it that makes me want to cry more, I wonder?"

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