Quotations

Do we have a quotes thread anywhere?

Oh well. I'm starting one! Add your favorite quotes. I've got tons, but this thread was spurned by a book I'm presently reading. Night Watch by Sarah Waters. I've been reading it on and off for a long time...haven't gotten into it to the point where I'm gobbling it up just yet, but it's an interesting read. One of the characters said something that I just read that I really liked, concerning grief. She'd just been discussing carrying cots during WWII in England (The book is set in the years following the war).

"It's no more than happened to thousands of us. Who didn't lose someone or something? I could walk on any street in London, stretch out my arm, touch a woman or a man who lost a lover, a child, a friend. But I - I can't get over it, Mickey. I can't get over it. " She laughed, unhappily. "Get over it. What a funny phrase that is! As if grief is a fallen house, and one has to pick one's way over the rubble to the ground on the other side...I've got lost in my rubble, Mickey, and I can't seem to find my way across it. I don't think I want to cross it, that's the thing. The rubble has all my life in it still "

I found it a very eloquent statement on grief.

 

Because Nietszche is so good for quotes.

"Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history,” but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die."

He sums up the entirety of human existence, including our future, within the space of a paragraph. Brilliant.

 

I'm going to like this thread.

Excellent quotes, DH and Saty. :smt023

 

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

~ Timothy Leary

 

So very true!! ;-) :smt023

 

"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary"


Albert Einstein

 

"I got a letter from the gov't the other day. I opened, and read it, and said they were suckas. They wanted me for their army or whatever. Picture me givin' a damn. I said never"-Chuck D

 

"Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all"-Kurt Cobain

 

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius


Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein


Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.


Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld


When you realise You want to spend The rest of your life with somebody, You want the rest of your life To start as soon as possible. - When Harry Met Sally...

I promise not all of my quotes will be about love....

 

"You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill




"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King

 

great quotes everybody! Looking for mine. The problem is that I might have to translate them, uhm.

 

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember- Kahil Gibran

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms-Kahil Gibran

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice-Kahil Gibran

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant-Henry David Thoreau

When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear-Mark Twain

And I have this on my desk so I look at it and move everyday:

If you rest you rust-Helen Hayes

 

Courage does not always roar, it is the small voice at the end of the day that says "I will try again tomorrow."

 

This is nice. I love it.

 

So true.

 

That is one of my favorite songs w Tricky

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Now I know what he did all throughout the War

:smt033

blazed so much, he had his own galaxy in his head

 

Veni, vidi, vici.
(I came, I saw, I conquered)

Julius Caesar


"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King Jnr

 

For any who would not work;........Neither should he eat !