Favourite Quotes

[KPTitan]

"You Girl Scouts wanna hear a story? Once upon a time, there was a magical place where it never rained.....the end." - Mr. Sir, Holes

 

[Gatomon41]

"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back." -G.K. Chesterton

"God? No, I'm not God. But I'm a close second."-Kane

 

[podznvines]

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."---Albert Einstein

"After all, what is reality anyway? Nothin' but a collective hunch."---Lily Tomlin

 

[Terror of Death]

"That's the problem with the world today; too many freaks, not enough circuses." -Reality TV Show.

"I'm not giving up without a fight! I say we charge that bastard!!!" -Random Mook

 

[Hobbes829]

They said 'it's a fight to the finish.' That's a good place to end." - Mitch Hedberg

 

[Marvin Tikvah]

"A hospital or a cemetery? It is your choice" - Rugal Bernstein

"That's the largest walking argument for birth control I've ever seen" - The late Capt. Lou Albano

 

[Hanshotfirst1138]

"Loneliness, empty faces, I'd like to leave them all in someplace else."
George Harrison

Tulip: The way I hear it, there's two good places to look for God: in church, or at the bottom of a bottle.
Jesse: Maybe I'll go find a liquor store then... 'Cause lemme tell you, it sure as hell ain't church.
Garth Ennis, Preacher

"I'm sixteen--almost sixteen and a half. And what have I got to show for it? For a start I don't have anybody I'm in love with. To be honest, I think love is complete garbage. I don't think anybody ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared. So when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love." ~ Sexton Furnival
Neil Gaiman's Death: the High Cost of Living

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop."
Anonymous

"The hardest part of dreaming about someone you love is having to wake up."
Unknown

"Hang on. Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky. In the end, all your money can't another minute buy."
Kansas

"Not knowing everything is all that makes it okay, sometimes."
Delirium, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Brief Lives

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
Dante​

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Jimi Hendrix

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate."
Unknown

Block: I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.
Priest: Yet you do not want to die.
Block: Yes, I do.
[As Block looks away, we see now that the "priest" is actually Death.]
Priest/Death: What are you waiting for?
Block: Knowledge.
Priest/Death: You want a guarantee.
Block: Call it what you will.[Block kneels as if praying to the figure of Jesus.]
Block: Is it so hard to conceive God with one's senses? Why must He hide in a midst of vague promises and invisible miracles? How are we to believe the believers when we don't believe ourselves? What will become of us who want to believe but cannot? And what of those who neither will nor can believe? Why can I not kill God within me? Why does He go on living in a painful, humiliating way? I want to tear Him out of my heart, but He remains a mocking reality which I cannot get rid of. Do you hear me?
Priest/Death: I hear you.[Block turns to kneel before the priest behind the confessional screen.]
Block: I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.
Priest/Death: But He is silent.
Block: I cry to Him in the dark, but there seems to be no one there.
Priest/Death: Perhaps there is no one there.
Block: Then life is a senseless terror. No man can live with Death and know that everything is nothing.
Priest/Death: Most people think neither of Death nor nothingness.
Block: Until they stand on the edge of life and see the Darkness.
Priest/Death: Ah, that day.
Block: [laughs bitterly] I see. We must make an idol of our fear, and call it God.
Priest/Death: You are uneasy.
Block: Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess. This respite enables me to perform a vital errand.
Priest/Death: What errand?
Block: My whole life has been a meaningless search. I say it without bitterness or self-reproach. I know it is the same for all. But I want to use my respite for one significant action.
Priest/Death: So you play chess with Death?
Block: He is a skillful tactician, [smiling] but I have not yet lost one piece.
Priest/Death: How can you outwit Death?
Block: [smiling] By a combination of bishop and knight. I will break his flank.[The "priest" turns to face Block through the screen.]
Priest/Death: I shall remember that.[Block stands up, startled.]
Block: Traitor! You have tricked me! But I'll find a way out.

[Block's squire, Jöns, returns from asking directions of a man who turns out to be long dead.]
Block: Did he show you the way?
Jöns: Not exactly.
Block: What did he say?
Jöns: Nothing.
Block: Was he mute?
Jöns: No, milord. He was most eloquent.
Block: Indeed.
Jöns: But very gloomy.
Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal

"There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone."
Sara Tisdale

"Is there beyond the silent night
An endless day;
Is death a door that leads to light?

We cannot say.
The tongueless secret locked in fate
We do not know. -- We hope and wait."
Robert G. Ingersoll

“Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a fast-flittering meteor, a fast-flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passes from life to his rest in the grave.”
William Knox (1824)

"Nobody dies a virgin. Life screws us all."
"All in all is all we are."
Curt Cobain

"Lactose intolerant milk? If you're lactose intolerant, you can't drink milk! What the hell is in that carton?! Get it away from my milk! It's talking to my milk and making it feel bad about itself!"
Lewis Black

"Our revels now are ended. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep."
Prospero, The Tempest

"The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape."
Hamlet

"I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes."
Hob Gadling, in Sandman #13: "Men of Good Fortune"

"You know, the idea of what someone like you considers a long time sends shivers down my spine."
Hob Gadling to Dream, in Sandman #22: "Season of Mists", episode 1

"We do what we must, Lucien. Sometimes we can choose the path we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all."
Dream, in Sandman #22: "Season of Mists", episode 1

Charitably...I think...sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change."
Lucien, The Sandman: The Wake

"Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes, in hospitals and forests and abattoirs. For some folks death is a release and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them."
Death, in Sandman #20: "Façade"

"I don't want to talk to her, Matthew. I doubt she wants to talk to me. But still … we will talk."
Dream, about his former lover, in Sandman #27: "Seasons of Mist: episode 6"

"I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear."
"Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out."
Norton I and Death, in Sandman #31: "Three Septembers and a January"

"I didn't say it was my fault. I said it was my responsibility. I know the difference."
Rose Walker, in Sandman #60: "The Kindly Ones: 4"

"They never liked us, did they?"
"Gods don't 'like'. They love and they hate and they ignore …"
Stheno and Euryale, in Sandman #61: "The Kindly Ones: 5"

"Two men enter. One man leaves."
The crowd, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

"You steal the secret of life and death and here you are, trysting with a bubble-headed co-ed!"
Re-Animator
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[Hobbes829]

If there is no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. 'cause that's all there is. What we do, now, today
- Angel, Epiphany

 

[Urusei Yatsura]

Going by the rest of your quotes, I'm guessing you see the end of "The Dead" as negative. But I take the stance that it's actually positive--just wrote an essay about it even. Gabriel's had this epiphany about his wife and about himself in turn, which can allow him to move forward in his life. Also, snow is a loaded symbol, but often represents rebirth, as with the coming spring. Because all of Ireland is experiencing the same snow, which is a rare phenomenon, I take it as a time of cleansing for the nation and for its people, Gabriel included. It's beautiful language, for sure, and it's amazing that interpretations can still be debated to this day.

This is pretty random, but my english teacher's grandfather (or great) was James Joyce. She said she hated him, though...

As for quotes, I like the famous "Nothing to fear, but fear itself"

 

[JasonFox]

A man about to be hanged for killing his wife and neighbor in 1802 when asked if he had any last words.

"I came here to DIE not make a speech"

 

[Flame Alchemist]

"For you, a thousand times over."
- Hassan (and Amir), The Kite Runner. I just finished this book today and it was amazing. Beautiful. Even with the gruesome scenes described throughout the novel, this book is still beautiful in so many ways. I long to see the movie so I can see the faces of Hassan and Amir. I loved the ending. Sohrab, without going into too much detail, is a character I truly worried about.

"Once upon a time, there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly, everybody died. The end."
- Patrick, SpongeBob. This was back when SpongeBob was funny and entertaining.

"If violence is the answer, you're asking the wrong question."

 

[jph139]

"My library was dukedom large enough." ~ Prospero, The Tempest

One of my favorite quotes of all time. I also like...

"I cannot live without books."~ Thomas Jefferson

...but Prospero's has that fancy ring to it. Something you can actually quote, y'know? Ooh, another one of my favorites...

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Romanticism in its finest. Sky is the limit, life is an adventure, the world beyond the world, all that. Very pretty. Got it from Civilization IV, actually... which has a lot of good quotes with the technologies, and Leonard Nemoy reads them all, so now I can't hear them without doing so in his voice. But, yeah, some more of my favorites.

"You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails." ~ Unknown

"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair." ~ The Iliad

"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." ~ Adolf Hitler

"As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." ~ Hippocrates

"There is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." ~ Isaac Asimov

Ah, quotes. It's good stuff.

 

[ThePRPD]

It very well may suck. But don't say it sucks until you see it. And my pledge is that if it sucks, it's not going to suck in a fizzly way. It's going to suck in a giant, 'Oh my god' kind of way, because we're really swinging for the fences and trying to do some big stuff.

Bill Lawrence on the 9th Scrubs season.

 

[.bg]

It's amazing, I'm the reason
Everybody fired up this evening
I'm exhausted, barely breathing
Holding on to what I believe in

No matter what you'll never take that from me
My reign is as far as your eyes can see
-Kanye West, "Amazing"

I met this girl, when I was 10 years old
And what I loved most, she had so much soul
She was old school, when I was just a shorty
Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me
on the regular, not a church girl, she was secular
Not about the money, no studs was mic checkin her
-Common, "I Used to Love H.E.R."

Yes, I'm a hip-hop fan. Just listened to those two songs.

 

[BonyT]

"In my vain life I have seen everything; there are righteous people who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked people who prolong their life in their evildoing. Do not be too righteous, and do not act too wise; why should you destroy yourself? Do not be too wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time? It is good that you should take hold of the one, without letting go of the other; for the one who fears God shall succeed with both." -- Ecclesiastes 7.15-18 NRSV

 

[WolfieKiwi]

"Oh cursed spite. That ever I was born to set it right!" - Hamlet

Royal: Richie, this illness, this closeness to death... it's had a profound affect on me. I feel like a different person, I really do.
Richie: Dad, you were never dying.
Royal: ...but I'm gonna live.
- The Royal Tenenbaums

and a little something more festive...

"Everyday's special, I'm not complaining, but I'm always counting the days still remaining, till Chirstmas" - Olive The Other Reindeer

 

[ThePRPD]

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these mother CLEVLAND snakes on this mother CLEVELAND plane! Strap your selves in... Imma 'bout to open some CLEVELAND windows."
Samuel L. Jackson starring in Snakes on a Plane

The TV edited version is really amusing.

 

[Tomato Surprise]

This quote by Captain America sums up my virtues and ideals to the letter.



Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move."

• Amazing Spider-Man #537

Tomato

 

[Gatomon41]

"I'm sorry. I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am."
-Captain James T. Kirk

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these mother CLEVLAND snakes on this mother CLEVELAND plane! Strap your selves in... Imma 'bout to open some CLEVELAND windows."
Samuel L. Jackson starring in Snakes on a Plane

The TV edited version is really amusing.

True that, I couldn't stop laughing

 

[Hobbes829]

"the only time you wait for sex is if the girl is 17 years, 11 months old" - Barney Stinson