- "I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying." - oscar wilde
- "It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things." - Daniel Handler
- "The imaginary represents at each moment the implicit meaning of the real." - sartre
- “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” - Oscar Wilde
- “It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.” - palahniuk
- Ars longa, vita brevis.
- Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is… if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.
- Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist - jean-paul satre
- How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
- I can do anything I want. And so can you.
- I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.
- If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
- If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.
- Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is. — Clive Barker
- Mono no aware.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- the devil follows me day and night, because he is afraid to be alone. - Francis Picabia
- The mind is everything. What we think we become.
- There are causes for all human suffering, and there is a way by which they may be ended, because everything in the world is the result of a vast concurrence of causes and conditions, and everything disappears as these causes and conditions change and pass away. Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change. A child is born by the conditions of parentage; its body is nourished by food, its spirit is nurtured by teaching and experience. Therefore, both flesh and spirit are related to conditions and are changed as conditions change. A net is made up by a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If any one thinks that a mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistaken. It is called a net because it is made up of a series of connected meshes, and each mesh has its place and responsibilities in relation to other meshes. - buddha
- There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.
- There’s a gap where we meet, where I end and you begin.
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- We can spend our lives letting the whole world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe its our job to invent something better.
- We loved with a love that was more than love.
- We've taken the world apart...but we have no idea what to do with the pieces...
- What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
- Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - rainer maria rilke
- Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: "What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?" - Marcus Aurelius
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