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Some of My Favorite Quotes
"There's no one singing war songs now like people used to do, no over there, no praise the lord, no glory halalu, perhapse at last we've asked ourselves what we should have asked before, with the pain and death this madness brings, what were we ever singing for?"- Father Mulcahey (M*A*S*H* tv series)
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature" - Tom Robbins
"To the rational mind there can be no offense, no obscenity, no blasphemy, but only information of greater or lesser value."
"Ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, because I'm the meanest son of a bitch in the valley"
"The difference between a hero and a coward isnt the fear, but what you do with it"
"You said you read me like a book but the pages are all torn and frayed""Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.
Then the almost unnameable lust returns." --Anne Sexton
"to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting" -- ee cummings\
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." ~Abraham Lincoln
"Veni, vidi, vici."[I came, I saw, I conquered] ~Julius Caesar
"Pain of mind is worse than pain of body."
-"The Process of Belief," Bad Religion
"The insane are sane and the sane are insane in a world of craziness."
"Why torture yourself when life will do it for you."
"How will you know I am hurting,
If you cannot see my pain?
To wear it on my body
Tells what words cannot explain."
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die." -Napolean Bonaparte
"Love isn't about finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"
"A girl asked a guy if she was pretty, he said no. She asked him if he wanted her, he said no. She asked him if she left would he cry, he said no. She turned to leave, he grabbed her arm and said..you're not pretty; you're beautiful. And I don't want you; I need you. And I wouldn't cry if you left; I would die"
"Those who have suffered will understand that pain is welcome when it's all you have left,come and die with me." -"Come With Me," Deviates
"This is the way the world ends,Not with a bang but a whimper." -"The Hollow Men," T. S. Eliot
"The only thing that seperates a poet from madness is a thin sheet of paper."
"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."-Nora Ephron
"Life is pain. Anyone who tells you something different is selling something."-"The Princess Bride," William Goldman
"I tell people it's like being dead. It feels like being a ghost, maybe. You float through your days feeling insubstantial, cut off from warmth, light and all feeling. Sometimes it feels like you're in a coffin buried alive. You're screaming inside your head, but no one can hear you." -Deborah Gray
"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all." -"Morphine," Heinrich Heine
"Razors and knives, horrible things,
Explanations, slip my mind,
Press and drag, for comforting stings,
Soon, addiction's what you find.
No longer can you wait a day,
An hour's far too long,
Despite what you hear them say,
You still don't think it's wrong.
You like the sting, it makes you smile,
While the blood dripping down makes you snicker,
Finally, something worth your while,
As the lines grow thicker and thicker.."
"Madness is a kind of mental suicide." -"The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," Stephen King
"Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders freely from the truth of reality."
"I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed." -"I Dreamed a Dream," Les Miserables
"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way
one gets through many a bad night." -Friedrich Nietzsche"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always
darker, emptier and simpler." -Friedrich Nietzsche"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
--Sinclair Lewis 1935