"Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you...I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul." ~ Wuthering Heights
Guess I'm a romantic at heart after all.... ;)
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"Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you...I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul." ~ Wuthering Heights
Guess I'm a romantic at heart after all.... ;)
"when we r born,we cry that we r come to this great stage of fools."William Shakespeare
1. beauty is eloquent, even when silent.
2. you smile for seconds and i will remember it for hours.
3. be happy,its one way of being nice.
4. life is a comedy for those who think, a tragedy for thise who feel.
(sorry, all authors unknown! help me.)
"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy"
Kierkegaard
"Hell is other people"--Garcin in the play "No Exit" by Jean Paul Sartre
My father: "Have you talked to your mom lately?"
Myself: "No."
MF: "You should talk to her. I went through all this trouble so you could meet her. I could have killed her."
Not very literary, I know. Won't do it again. (Note: He is referring to me being brought into the world, not being reunited with a long-lost mother; it just seemed funny to me.)
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
-- William Shakespeare
But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth's darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken
(from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
I love this monologue which begins, "Out, out brief candle..."Quote:
Originally Posted by melancolia
I read somewhere that this monologue is representative of Existentialism.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet (Gandhi)
"She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing." -Sallinger in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish."
Why? When I read that one line--just 12 words--I knew everything about that character. I also knew that if I were to describe her, it would take me several pages and I'd still convey less information that Sallinger does in that one line.
I should also point out that I like my signature-quote as well--but that's cuz I'm just a silly hippie.
one of my favourite quotes.."intelligence is imagination having fun"einstien
"He lived in a dream, and reality meant nothing to him."
-William Somerset Maughan, The Moon and Sixpence
"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one in a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever."
-Elisabeth Kuebler Ross, On Death and Dying
"He realized that all men were like this; that each person was to himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid. Like here, standing. If he should scream, if he should holler for help, would it even matter?"
-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Those are just a few from my neverending list of most favorite quotes. :D
"Chaque être naît seul, à son jour, à son heure, et vient au monde les mains vides."
-Paulina Chiziane.
That's a nice one, ElizabethSewall ! :nod: It reminds me a bit ofQuote:
Originally Posted by ElizabethSewall
A bit sad, though. Can't remember who said it...Quote:
Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die ?
He that hath understanding in himself is best;
He that lays up his brother's wisdom in his breast is good.
But he that neither knoweth, nor will be taught by the instruction of the wise -this man is naught
(Hesiod)
Nobody comes here anymore; it's too crowded.
-Yogi Berra
"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." -- Jacob August Riis
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.
--Lorraine Hansberry
the world is subject to constant change... somebody said it, i dnt know who... but i like it lots
Hello, inDeniaL, welcome to the forum. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by inDeniaL
Though I could have mistaken in my memory from previous philosophy classes, I think Heraclitus wrote the quote you posted.
:lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
so money doesn't automatically increase brains, a pity that is ! ;)
do you know wat annoys the bullcrap outta me? when people say the dumbest things:flare: :
"it was the last place i looked!" no crap, y would u keep looking????
"its like trying to find a needle in a haystack!" ever heard of a magnet?? they invented those way back in the day
"well, that proves global warming." wat, that the ice caps are melting? the world is slowly flooding, or just that it was a little hotter last year????? u tell me
Indeed, people say such dumb things sometimes. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by iwnttoknowall
In this country, you gotta make the money first.
Then when you get the money, you get the power.
Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
-Scarface
"We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are *bull*****. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!
-Moonstruck
Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their graces;
... Say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
- Shakespere
Two Gentlemen of Verona
"She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. How she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge Fräulein Daniels gave them she could not think. She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that."
:: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
I like this thread.
This one keeps me in check.
Guard you roving thoughts with a jealous care for speech is but the dialer of thoughts and every fool can plainly read in your words the hour of your thoughts. Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love". ~ William Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act ii, Sc.2
"The unexamined Life is not worth living"
-Socrates
I think this is what every well rounded author does.... along with their readers.
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.
-- Carolyn Warner
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself" Roosevelt