What is your favorite quote? And why?

[Lullaby]

"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.

And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world."

- from Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk; because it is so true.

"Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."

- from Invisible Monsters, also, by Chuck Palahniuk; because once again, it's true and this quotation just spoke to me.. I'm not entirely sure why.

"This is not an exit."

- from American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis; this is my favourite BEE quote. It doesn't mean a lot out of context, but it's the last line of the novel and, in it's entirety, it pretty much summed up the whole concept of the novel.

And, finally...

"Disappear Here"

- from Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis; this novel changed my life and this quotation is the motif for it.

[yasser]

When there's a will there's a way

i like this one very much, it's the true meaning of what success is all about
thank you

[Like_Herod]

I've just spent ages reading through a good many pages of this thread and thought I'd add my own. It's one of the Shakespeare quotations Huxley uses in Brave New World:

Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,
Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh…

[DarkStormyNight]

Louis L'Amour's Education of a Wandering Man reads like a book of quotes. I got a lot of wisdom out of that book.

"I remember the decks of ships where I have walked, the feel of the wheel in my hands, the drip of water from yellow oilskins, and I have heard the crash of great trees coming down in the forest. One does not have to live among these things to remember them, and I do. They were and are a part of me."

"A writer is bound by no earthly ties; what he is and what he sees he creates in his mind, or his subconscious creates it for him. Thanks to the lands I have seen and the books I have read, I know what it was like. The world of which I write is my world always. It is a claim I have staked and continue to stake, and each writer has his own way of telling a story."

[Snowqueen]

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain."

Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray).

[Perkunos]

I always enjoyed this from Beowulf
“Unless he is already doomed Wyrd is apt to favour him who keeps his nerve”

and Anearin’s
“I wish I had been the first to shed my blood at Cattraeth, to pay for the blue mead and the feasting”

[Pryderi Agni]

Currently, it's The Glimmer Man's 'We gotta have sympathy for the dead, the dying, the could-be-dying and the soon-to-be-dead.'

[Scheherazade]

"It was an extremely beautiful place and was very green."

Japan's first lady-in-waiting on her trip to Venus

[Nimor]

One of my favourite is: "She was a phantom of delight/ when first she gleamed upon my sight" William Wordsworth

[repercussion]

Blessed are the idiots because they are the happiest people on the earth.

It's the subtitle of the novel "The White Shroud" by A. Skema, lithuanian writer.

[Philly501]

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
(JC Beckett)

This is one of my favourite quotes, mainly because I was studying Hamlet when I came across this.

[isidro]

But here is one.

"You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds."
Utopia, Sir Thomas More

[DarkPain]

I liked all of them, but mostly the last one because it is too hard to find that one.....

[Muha!!]

"everything comes to an end"
Have a nice day DarkPain

[soundofmusic]

The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world.
-I made this up. It was based on someone's signature link though, I just changed it so it sounded better. No idea where its from originally.

Wonderful sentiment. I always thought that is the one thing we all wait for in our lives; and hopefully, the feeling is mutual...
I saw it on an old link from 2007 named "It's all Greek to me" with several wonderful quotes

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"Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain."

Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray).

One of my favorite authors, stories and quotes as well. I read a book with several of Benjamin Franklin's letters. There is one to a Ms. Brillion, In which he issued the same sentiment.