Quotable quotes

[PalacePaul]

 

[Alistair]

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

— Oscar Wilde

 

[Alistair]

“I walk lightly so as not to crush my cheerfulness. I walk heavily so as not to fly.”

-Mahmoud Darwish, from “From now on you are you,” A River Dies of Thirst

 

[Alistair]

 

[Rand]

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[smokeshadow]

"The Fellow Who Thinks He Knows It All Is Especially Annoying To Those of Us Who Do"​

attributed to Isaac Asimov

 

[pornoboy]

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[Rand]

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[pornoboy]

I am what I am
And what I am needs no excuses
I deal my own deck
Sometimes the ace sometimes the deuces
It's my life that I want to have a little pride in
My life and it's not a place I have to hide in
Life's not worth a danm til you can shout out
I am what I am..!

Gloria Gay...nor ​

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

"Maybe compassion is like sperm, and results in involuntary emissions if not released otherwise."

-- our own @NotHardUp1 on tears

 

[Alistair]

I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can't find the right words.

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, c. November 1912

 

[Rand]

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[pornoboy]

When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb

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[Alistair]

Han Kang

 

[Alistair]

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”

— T.E. Lawrence (b. 16 August 1888)

 

[Alistair]

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

I hope to arrive to my death late, in love, and a little drunk.

Atticus

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.”

― Franz Kafka