i'm kind of hesitant posting it in this forum, but i guess i'll try.

as the title says, list your favorite quotes and by who it was said. i'm working on this little project & i need quotes from anything or anybody. & i mean anybody. well, preferably non-music/movie related, but if its really clever/inspiring obvs nobody's gonna stop you. any religious scriptures, poetry, political, historical, philosophical, inspirational, anything is fair game.

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hollywood would be jealous.

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you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

I really like:
"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders" - Nietzsche

The meaning of life is that it ends.
--Franz Kafka

Imagination is more important than knowladge. ~ Albert Einstien

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

~Dr. Seuss

Tell me ..

and I’ll forget -


Show me

and I may not remember -


Involve me

and I will understand.

- Native American Proverb

That one by Tom Baker about the cemetery. Ask Emily34695.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

"Then came human beings. They wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to." - that's Camus, I'm pretty sure it's from The Myth Of Sisyphus.

And my favourites from Cold Comfort Farm:
"You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances"

"One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favourite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing-gown."

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i'm bored so here's a bunch that i like

"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the ’good life’, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."
-- Hunter S. Thompson

"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
- Jonathan Safran Foer

"She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short."
- Brian Andreas

"Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
- Hemingway


"’Think how you love me,’ she whispered. ’I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight.’"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I’m not trying to take pictures of things in the way they officially look. They have postcards for that. I’m looking for the way that image felt when I saw it."
-Lou Reed

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
- KEROUAC

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed

-HEMINGWAY

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

-ALLEN GINSBERG

She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

-ANAIS NIN

At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they’ll be creative about it, and do something good besides.
- Lester Bangs

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).

- Alice In Wonderland

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

- Kurt Vonnegut

i handed you a drink of the lovely little thing on which our survival depends. people say friends dont destroy one another, what do they know about friends?

- The Mountain Goats

I hope it stays dark forever I hope the worst isn’t over And I hope you blink before I do And I hope I never get sober And I hope when you think of me years down the line You can’t find one good thing to say And I’d hope that if I found the strength to walk out You’d stay the hell out of my way I am drowning There is no sign of land You are coming down with me Hand in unlovable hand And I hope you die I hope we both die

- The Mountain Goats

you know you’re so fucked up. you know i couldn’t help but have it for you. everybody knows the way i walk, knows the way i talk, knows the way i feel about you. it’s all a bunch of shit and there’s nothing to do around here. it’s totally fucked up. i’m totally fucked up. wish you were here

- Ryan Adams

You’re still the one pool where I’d happily drown

- LCD Soundsystem

It was Sunday, the twenty-second September, when I heard the Stooges. I stopped in the doorway and did a mesmerisation moment. What is this? You don’t get too many memories like that in your life. Some movies, some passages of books, like Catcher In The Rye. You live for moments like that. Well I do.

- Danny Fields

’You know it makes me feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.’ ’Yes.’ ’It’s sort of what we have instead of God.’

- Ernest Hemingway

"Your whole thing is that you want people to like you anyway. You want people to like you in spite of yourself, and that’s kind of a lot to ask." - Hank

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

"It’s so hard to be a human being. Isn’t that ridiculous? Simple human things are difficult for me."

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Here is how all drugs make me feel: quite simply they make me feel ok to be me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

As far as what stage you’re in, and whatever you think about your destiny, I sure as hell wouldn’t worry about it. When I was your age my future was nothing less than grim - and I suppose it still is to some God-fearing people - but since then I’ve managed to get around a bit and do just about what I intended to do in the first place. All you need to do is figure out what your action is and hang on, no matter what they tell you. And, even if you never make it, you’ll feel better trying instead of giving up and going along with the noise crowd. But right now you don’t have to worry about what you’re going to do. The important thing is to follow your instincts about what you aren’t going to do.

- Hunter S Thompson

We’re young, we’re just hanging out

- Dee Dee Ramone

Right now I only want two things - you and time to write. These people out here feel sorry for me; they don’t know what I’m going to do, and they can’t understand why it doesn’t seem to worry me. It’s so sad that it makes me laugh. I feel like the man with The Secret. They tell me I need love and I laugh quietly. They tell me I need a purpose and I laugh again. I would never tell them how happy I am to know we’re going to be together again, because then they wouldn’t be able to feel sorry for me and they’d feel even worse. I really want nothing more than to be in bed with you, to stay there as long as we want, to have a roof over heads and food in our mouths and to be left alone. We already have the big thing and the rest is trivia.

- Hunter S Thompson to Sandy Thompson


Just before our love got lost you said, "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constantly in the darkness Where’s that at? If you want me I’ll be in the bar."

Joni Mitchell

"THAT IS NOT A KETTLE!" "NOT A CUP!" "NOT A SPOON!" "NOT DIRTY DISHES!"
We denied whole rooms, years, weathers. Once, at the peak of our shouting, Bird took a deep breath. At the top of his lungs, he shrieked: "I! HAVE NOT! BEEN! UNHAPPY! MY WHOLE! LIFE!"
"But you're only seven," I said. - nicole krauss [the history of love]

half of the people can be part right all of the time,
some of the people can be all right part of the time,
but all of the people can't be all right all of the time.

i think abraham lincoln said that.

why can't you all fuck off and die

i said that.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

I have alot, but my favorite quote of the year is:

"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
-George Orwell

i don't mean to be an asshole and quote faulkner, but i do love:

"i feel like a wet seed in the hot blind earth."

i could do this all day


it takes less effort to condemn than to think
emma goldman

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Fightclub

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Sean O'Casey

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields

I can't be bothered to search my quote books so the only ones that come to mind are film quotes that are easy to google. I know there aren't many people quoting films, makes me feel a bit stupid but I like em.

I mean, life - it only makes sense when you look at it backwards Too bad we gotta live it forwards
-13 Conversations about one thing

These are the sort of windows faces look in at.
-withnail and I

Throw yourself into the road, darling - you haven't got a chance
- withnail and I

I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
- witnail and I

every line in Withnail and I is quotable in my opinion, but these are the best.

It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice. - Alysa Milano.

My favourite lady for quotes is Dorothy Parker:

Four be the things I’d have been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

Take care of luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

I’ve never been a millionaire but I just know I’d be darling at it.

And "I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde