For more quote reference: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page What is a rebel? A man who says no. --Albert Carnus There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. --Salvador Dali Beware the fury of a patient man. --John Dryden "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." --James Baldwin When angry count four; when very angry, swear. --Mark Twain Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. --Robert Frost It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. --H.L. Mencken Only the sinner has a right to preach. --Christopher Morley Sometimes you have to make your own family. Family is not always about blood. --Unknown Being alone can be depressing, if you let it. I keep my aches and pains to myself. I just listen and pray alot. --Anonymous In war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose. --Philip Caputo I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a supurb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. --Jack London If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knocking it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. --Rosie Perez Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one. --Sylvia Ashton-Warner Hell hath no fury like a fanatic asked to find a reason for what he's doing. He simply want to do it, and generally he wants to do it because he observes, often unconsciously, that something new is coming into existence and he doesn't like it, and he's going out with fire and sword to hold it back. --Gwen Bristow All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence. --Luis Bufiuel Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. --Delmore Schwartz, "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day "Some people think that the Wired has no political boundaries like the real world. But with this freedom, there is a price to pay. I'm talking about nonsense-spouting anarchists and idiots who think a lot of pranks add up to a revolution. The Knights are different; they don't seem to be anarchists or idiots at all." - Tachibana employee, "Serial Experiments Lain" The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil is for Good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke "Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly." -Neil Gaiman Beyond these thin hide walls a child sits, before her on worn silk a Deck is arrayed. She cannot yet speak and the scenes before her she's never before seen in this life. The child gazes upon a lone card named Obelisk, the stone grey she can feel its roughness in her mind. Obelisk stands buried in a grassy knoll like a knuckle protruded from the earth, past and future. This child's eyes are wide with terror, for cracks have appeared in the stone of stones and she knows the shattering is begun. -Silverfox, Steven Erikson A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -Albert Einstein We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. Wandering by lone sea breakers. Sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers on whom the pale moon gleams. And yet we are the movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems -Arthur O'Shaungenssy Out of the night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods maybe For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate How charged with punishment the scroll I am the Master of my fate I am the Captain of my soul. -- William Earnest Henley Cherry blossoms in the Spring, and starry skies in the Summer. The Autumn brings the full moon. The Winter brings the snow. These things make Sake taste good. If you don't like Sake, then there is something wrong inside of you. Someday you will understand how to taste it. Then, we will enjoy it together. -Hiko Seijuurou "Be careful, lest in banishing your demons, you banish the best thing within you." -Nietzsche Make a hairbredth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. -Bruce Lee "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" No, this is the great Theater Of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-Night. -Robertson Davies (1913-1995) In a mad world, only the mad are sane. -Akira Kurosawa When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Charlie Brown: Why was I put on this earth? Linus: To make others happy. Charlie Brown: Why were others put on this earth? "Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning." -Albert Einstein "First you take a drink, and then the drink takes a drink...and then the drink takes you." - F. Scott Fitzgerald "Look everyone! This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive and very soon now it will kill me. Fear and anger only make it grow faster." -Ashitaka, "Princess Mononoke" "Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god. A god of life and death. The trick is not to fear him." -Eboshi, "Princess Mononoke" Kill a man and you're an assassin. Kill millions of men and you're a conquer. Kill everyone and you're a God. - Jean Rostand "One who is a samurai must before all things keep constantly in his mind, by day and by night...the fact that he has to die." -Daidoji Yuzan "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." -Alan Ashley-Pitt "When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly." -Anonymous nosce te ipsum - know thyself aut inveniam viam aut faciam - I will either find a way or make one c'est le commencement de la fin - it is the beginning of the end cogito, ergo sum - I think, therefore I exist. credo quia impossibele est - I believe it because it is impossible. veritatis simplex oratio est - the language of truth is simple flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo/ if I cannot bend heaven, then I'll stir hell. -Virgil faber est quisque fortunae suae/ everyone is the architect of his or her own fortune. -Sallust Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glint on snow. I am the sun on ripened grain. I am the soothing, gentle rain. When you awake in morning hush, I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die. -Anonymous "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -H.P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. -Proverb The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it. -C.C. Scott The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die. -Will Rogers Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. -Louis D. Brandeis It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. -Winston Churchill "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." -Vince Lombardi "Time spent in reconaissance is seldom wasted." -Corrie, "Tomorrow, When the War Began" by John Marsden "I am Memory, and am wise in lore of the past, but I too am old. These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Their deeds I recall not, for they were but of the moment. Their aspect I recall dimly, it was like that of the little apes in the trees. Their name I recall clearly, for it rhymed with the river. These beings of yesterday were called Man." -H.P. Lovecraft, "Memory" Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. -Bertolt Brecht War always finds a way. -Bertolt Brecht I think, therefore I am. -René Descartes Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden I am a rock I am an island and a rock feels no pain and an island never cries. -Paul Simon, "I Am a Rock" To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower To hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour -Blake, "Auguries of Innocence" "You're still young, and you give up that easily?" -Cid, "FFVII" "If you were to die tomorrow, how fast would you run today?" -Anonymous To live is to indure. -Unknown "I always knew I would look back at the times I cried and laugh, but I never thought I would look back at the times I laughed and cry." -Unknown "Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and often time we call a man cold, when he is only sad." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone." -Unknown "Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." -Havelock Ellis Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. -Don Marquis In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. -Anne Sophie Swetchine Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. -Robert Frost Enter my reality and step Into your dreams By darkest day Or brightest night, Nothing's what it seems -Anonymous Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. -Mark Twain Sometimes you have to make your own family. Family is not always about blood. -Unknown Often the real test of courage is not to die, but to live. -Vittorio Alfieri We are immortal until our work on earth is done. -George Whitefield We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? --Niels Bohr "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." -James Dean And their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns: It is eternal winter there. -William Blake, "Holy Thursday" There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everying. Give him back something broken... -The Wounded Land by Stephen R. Donaldson The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. -Mayra Mannes May all your dreams bloom like daisies in the sun May you always have stars in your eyes May you not stop running on until your race is won May you always have blue skies -Unknown "I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding." -A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous. -Rendezvous, Alan Seeger Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke We started out as total strangers, and ended as lifelong friends. We shared a season of our lives, but every season has to end. -Unknown A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer. -Amanda Grier In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? -Tyger, William Blake The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in his heaven-- All's right with the world. -"Pippa's Song" by Browning. I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. -Rainer Maria Rilke I wish I'd seen you as a little girl Without your armor to fend off the world -Tonic, "Lemon Parade" People only live by their own strength. They only grow by their own strength. Only infants need parents...and you are no longer an infant. Stand on your own two feet, and walk. I learned to do the same. -Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 5: Stage 3 "Centopath" That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion. -REM, "Losing My Religion" Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss. -The Merchant of Venice, 2:9, by William Shakespeare Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. -John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune The only way to discover the limits of the possibilities is to go beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke I never meant to hurt you With the things I couldn't say I'd promised you tomorrow While denying you today -Stabbing Westward, "Torn Apart" Their’s not to make reply, Their’s not to reason why, Their’s but to do and die; Into the valley of Death Rode the six Hundred. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" I stared, motionless, before the mirror. As always, I stayed until I'm convinced that there is no glass, nothing separating me from the room I see on the other side. I imagine that everything is different. Over there. Better. There are people, in that world, who I would like. But, like always, my hand hits that glass. I know that if I'd waited just one more second... -"Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" Vol. 2, by Jhonen Vasquez Sometimes when I need them If I look hard enough to see them I can find my feet As I push against gravity In and out of having then Been lead by defeat So one more time's all I need -Matthew Good Band, "I, the Throw Away" "Alexander cried when he heard Anaxarchus talk about the infinite number of worlds in the universe. One of Alexander's friends asked him what was the matter, and he replied: 'There are so many worlds, and I have not yet conquered even one.'" -Plutarch's 'Moralia' "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778) "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) "The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps." - Alexander Archer Vandegrift Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. --Josef Stalin Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. --H. L. Mencken Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. --John Adams You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. --Robert M. Pirsig Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. --Jack Handy Deep Thoughts "'Stupid as a man,' say the women: 'cowardly as a woman,' say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming - "WOW, what a ride!!!" -Anonymous Zim: I put the fires out! Tallest: You made them WORSE! Zim: Worse? Or... BETTER? "God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players (i.e. everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules and _smiles_all_the_time_." -Good Omens "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." — Nelson Mandella "I came dancing all the way from the blazes of hell to settle the score with you humans." -Boomerang Flash, "Wild ARMs" "Overprotection only stunts the will to be independent." --Kelvena, "Xenogears" "This is sickening...you sound like chapters from a self-help booklet!" -Kefka, "Final Fanatasy VI" There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. -”Invictus”, William Ernest Henley It is easy to go down to hell; Night and Day the Gates of Dark Death stand wide; But to climb back up again, to retrace ones steps to the open air, there lies the problem, the difficult task. -The Aeneid (Book VI), Virgil He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place. -”Ozymandias”, Horace Smith Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. -”And Death Shall Have No Dominion”, Dylan Thomas "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 their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” -Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence “We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.” -Richard Feynman Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, -- perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go. -”Epipsychidion”, Percy Bysshe Shelley "There but for the grace of God go I." -John Bradford "We're all fucked. I'm fucked. You're fucked. The whole department's fucked. It's the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely fucked." -Sir Richard Mottram The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James A. Baldwin Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing don't mean nothing honey if it ain't free, now now. And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues, You know feeling good was good enough for me, Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee. -"Me & Bobby McGee", Janis Joplin Burning down neverland (scatter the ashes) White lines black tar the matches Is this another death by misadventure Tell me what you got, what you really got (hey hey!) We'll rest in our graves, Lexington course your veins Sleepers can't just wake the dead When needles and lovers collapse on guilty beds Fall asleep, don't fall asleep Don't fall asleep (They lied when they said that the good die young) -"Godspeed", Anberlin There's someone inside me that softly kills everyone around They don't know they're dead to me cause intent never makes a sound All along they found I strangled lovers who've learned from slower hands With these eleven minutes I could teach you what I am -"Reclusion", Anberlin Said brother are you weary? Said sister are you safe? Has this world got you thinking That it ain't nothing but jailers cage? Well child there ain't no worries And child it ain't no thing Because this world's too old to hate you And too young to give up spring -"Empty Road", Matthew Good