What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Behemoth]

"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....

[burcu_amy]

"when we r born,we cry that we r come to this great stage of fools."William Shakespeare

[anne1987]

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.)

[Jean-Baptiste]

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy"
Kierkegaard

[Logos]

"Hell is other people"--Garcin in the play "No Exit" by Jean Paul Sartre

[aeroport]

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.)

[melancolia]

"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

[Shalot]

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)

[genoveva]

"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

I love this monologue which begins, "Out, out brief candle..."
I read somewhere that this monologue is representative of Existentialism.

[spiritdancer]

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet (Gandhi)

[davoarid]

"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.

[davoarid]

I should also point out that I like my signature-quote as well--but that's cuz I'm just a silly hippie.

[winlit]

one of my favourite quotes.."intelligence is imagination having fun"einstien

[Bebbin]

"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.

[ElizabethSewall]

"Chaque être naît seul, à son jour, à son heure, et vient au monde les mains vides."

-Paulina Chiziane.