Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light
- Dylan Thomas -
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Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light
- Dylan Thomas -
That's a good one. The older I get, the more I see myself raging in a wheelchair some day.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhekti
I also like Sartre's "Hell is other people."
I just came across this one..
`Quod me nutrit me destruit' with accompanying emblem of torch turned downward.
(‘That which feeds me destroys me')*
the latin is the motto on a portrait painting that is alleged to be of Christopher Marlowe
(b. 1564- d. 1593)
The lines also bear resemblance to Shakespeares' Sonnet 73:
`Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by'
and
"A burning torch that’s turned upside down;
The word, Qui me alit, me extinguit
[Who feeds me extinguishes me]"
(Pericles, II.ii.33).
* The latin is also supposedly the tattoo that Angelina Jolie has on her belly.
Hello everyone ,I'm new in this forum and here is my first participation
The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly.
I'm afraid that i lost the author
Mine are:
Never close the door on the one you hate; they'll just knock the door down.
-me
You can't runaway from yourself.
-Michelle Branch
Never knock on Death's door; ring the bell and run, He hates that.
-Unknown
Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.+
-A Song, Breathe
One of mine is:
"You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" --Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
"The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose." --Fahrenheit 451 [explains everything about the neocon movement in 8 words!]
"Which is better- to be born stupid into an intelligent society, or intelligent into an insane one?" --Huxley's Island p. 228
"I wanna live. I wanna love. But It's a long hard road out of Hell." -- Marilyn Manson.
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the Freedom to make mistakes."
"What difference does it make to the Dead,Orhans,and Homeless,whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of Totalitarianism, or the Holy Name of Liberty,or Democracy"
And the one that got the Brits attention..."It is better to be Violent if there is Violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
Mohandas K. Gandhi
i like"you ve never loved me.YOu only find it pleasant to be in love with me"by Ibsen in his great play Adoll's House
See my signature.
become what you are
Don't get sentimental..., it'll always ends up drivel
(radiohead)
"Perhaps; but is it not Tennyson who has said:
''Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all'?"
~ from Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh (1903)
"Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd."
~ from William Congreve's The Mourning Bride (1697)
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!
~ (From Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (1589)
http://www.online-literature.com/mar...austus-1604/1/
--
Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
~ (from Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love c. 1589)
Wow...4 posts in a row :D
"An urge towards love pushed to its limits, is an urge towards death."
"No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable."
"Happiness lies only in that wich excites, and the only thing that excites is crime."
"The idea of god is the sole wrong for wich I cannot forgive mankind."
Marquis de Sade
I think edna millay?
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.”
Greek Proverb
any quote from lord of the rings will do me. :p
Ashes and dust and thirst there is, and pits, pits pits, and orcses, thousands of orcses, and the great eye watching, watching. -JRR Tolkein
"God is a comedian performing before an audience that afraid to laugh" Friedrich Nietzsche
Not all who wander are lost.
J.R.R Tolken
Oh 'tis bitter wrong. We just don't know what truth's are, but, to be sure, they are there.Quote:
Originally Posted by apstudent
To whoever submitted:
Tis better to have loved and lost
than to have never loved at all.
I would reply:
tis better to have never read at all
than to have read Tennyson.
"The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks." -Blake
"...Tragedy wrought to its uttermost.
Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages
And all the drop-scenes drop at once
Upon a hundred thousand stages,
It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce."- Yeats (Lapis Lazuli)
"Whence did all that fury come? From empty tomb or virgin womb?
St. Joseph thought the world would melt, but liked the way his finger smelt."
-Yeats (A stick of Incense)
"As every Joy is foundering in the whirls of time, care nesting deep withen the heart will quickly wreak her secret pangs. She sways and claws and never fails to don new masks. As homestead, or as wife and child. Water, fire, poison, knife. We lament the things we never lose, we dread the blow that does not strike." - Geothe (Faust)
"Come forth Lazarus! And Lazarus came fifth and lost the job." - Joyce
"What virtues, Lord, thou makest us abhor!" - Proust
"Only the wastful virtues earn the sun." -Yeats
"When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions."
-Shakespeare
The Babylonian starlight brought
a fabulous, formless, darkness in.
Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all Platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline - Yeats
"Our language sunk under him." - Dr. Johnson on Milton. Man it sure did.
...Him the almighty
Hurled headlong, flaming,
from the etherial sky, down
to bottomless perdition there to dwell in
adamantine chains and penal fire,
him who durst defy the omnipotent to arms.
- Milton
(i dont have it in front of me so forgive me if it isnt quite right, that goes for all these quotes, though im pretty confident about the rest.)
O.k. thats enough, im bored now.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. – Henry James
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail Van Buren
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
- Margaret Chase Smith
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
At least those are in my top thousand!
I'm still reading and have a couple of pages to go on this thread so hope I haven't repeated any. These are a few of my favourite quotes:
“My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, before all, to make you see. That – and no more, and it is everything.”
‘The N igger of the Narcissus’ –
Joseph Conrad
'Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.'
J. Schwartz
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
"I know not what weapons world war Three will be fought with, but world war Four will be fought with sticks & stones." - Albert Einstein.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.-Mark Twai
I have many favorites but the one that I can never forget is;
"A true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau
Two by George Bernard Shaw:
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
Here's another favorite:
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
-- William James
"The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive." Miguel de Cervantes
i like smart ***, in your face quote like "its not that life's too short, you've been dead
for too long".
" put your money where your mouth is, and you aint sayin nuthin".
"history is made by those who break the rules"'
losing is nature's way of saying"you suck".
destiny is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance.
I thought that since we already have a Word of the Day thread in th General Section, it would be interesting to have a Quotation thread. :banana:
It's fairly simple, exactly like the Word of the Day. If you think that the meaning or the drift of the quote is a little bit too hard to understand, please help others out by explaining it. :D
Perhaps later on we may have a poll to see which quote or authors the forum prefers.... (but that's in the distance as yet) :p
Here's the first one:
Quote:
"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." - Arthur C. Clarke -
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." -- Mark TwainQuote:
Originally Posted by Adelheid
so same rules apply only one quote a day? and you must say what dat its for???
:confused:
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." -Carl Jay
no I guess you'll only have to write once quote a day. Not 1 quote ONLY for everyone. 1 quote per person. :) No, you don't have to give a meaning. Only if its very complicated.
Quote:
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
- Laurens Van der Post -