Quotes and Quotes and Quotes and Quotes

1. "I saw that nothing was permanent. You didn't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it -" - Yoko Ono

2. "We are all doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means." - Tom Wolfe

3. "It is such a secret place, the land of tears." - Antoine de Saint Exupery

4. "If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time." - Daniel Keyes

5. "I must find a truth that is true for me... the idea for which I can live or die." - Soren Kierkegaard

6. "You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you." - Dorothea Lange

7. "It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult." - Richard Brautigan

8. "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." - George Eliot

9. "There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear." - Jean-Paul Sartre

10. "Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next." - J.D. Salinger

11. "I still rather think his cigar end should have been forwarded on to Seymour, the usual run of wedding gifts being what it is. Just the cigar, in a small, nice box. Possibly with a blank sheet of paper enclosed by way of explanation." - J.D. Salinger

12. "Computers are useless. They can only give you the answers." - Pablo Picasso

13. "Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret." - Hermann Hesse

14. "What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find." - Hermann Hesse

15. "The skeleton was waiting until I died; then my skin would peel off and it would be born." - Pagan Kennedy

16. "We must love life more than the meaning of it." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

17. "We're trying for something that's already found us." - Jim Morrison

18. "You are a child of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here. And whether or not it's clear to you no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." - Max Erhmann

19. "You are a visionary. You started out knowing not much at all. But you processed everything anyone ever shared with you. And you shared it back again until you discovered that what you know is different from anyone else in the world. You are a visionary." - Unknown

20. "To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. "That was the strength of the Nazis," she said. "They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make him stay away." - Kurt Vonnegut

22. "Don't ask me those questions! Don't ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don't talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don't want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the phone calls from John the Baptist. He might give me a call, too. But I'm not going to pick up the phone." - Susanna Kaysen

23. "See, Valerie, I've lost some time, and I need to know how much. I need to know." - Susanna Kaysen

24. "Death is the absence of life. Wherever life withdraws, death and rot move in." - William S. Burroughs

25. "And she never knew she was in a cage, any more than we know we are inside our own skins." - D.H. Lawrence

26. "...it means you always feel you would be happy somewhere else, and not just where you are." - D.H. Lawrence

27. "The future! The future! The future is used up every day. The future to me is like a big tangle of black thread. Every morning you begin to untangle one loose end - and that's your day. And every evening you break off and throw away what you've untangled, and the heap is so much less: just one thread less, one day less. That's all the future matters to me." - D.H. Lawrence

28. "Solitude is independence." - Hermann Hesse

29. "I paint pictures of myself to... I guess, yeah, to remind myself that I am still around." - Andy Warhol

30. "I was wrong and graceless and sick. All the things I had learned had been wasted. There was no living creature as foul as I and all my poems were false." - Charles Bukowski

31. "I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come." - Richard Brautigan

32. "And you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen / Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about;" - T.S. Eliot

33. "People always say you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster, or something. Like you can know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have, like, a moment, where being myself, and my life right where I am, is, like, enough." - My So-Called Life

34. "Kathy, I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why..." - Simon & Garfunkel

35. "I don't know what's the matter with me. Last night, I thought I was in love with a man, and tonight I think I'm in love with you -" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

36. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however distant or far-away." - Henry David Thoreau

37. "When you see something like that, it's like God is looking right at you, just for a second, and if you're careful, you can look right back." - American Beauty

38. "most spiritual pain, my lad, is caused by too much expectation." - Charles Bukowski

39. "And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now to pass through once more." - Hermann Hesse

40. "From the very start there is no innocence and no singleness." - Hermann Hesse

41. "All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go." - Taxi Driver

42. "America, why are your libraries full of tears?" - Allen Ginsberg

43. "And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation." - Rilke

44. "I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people." - Anne Sexton

45. "I do not write for them. Not for you. Not even for the editors. I want to find something.... Reaching people is mighty important, I know, but reaching me is most important right now." - Anne Sexton

46. "Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?" - Richard Brautigan

47. "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit, "to become REAL?" "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are REAL, you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to those who break easily or have sharp edges or who have to be carefully kept." - From The Velveteen Rabbit

48. "The thing about numbness," she tells the detective, "is that you only become aware of it when the sensations come flooding back. You don't realize how long it's been since you've felt things." - Laurie Foos

49. "I could have been good to you, it says under Washington's face, if only you'd let me." - Laurie Foos

50. "It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." - A.A. Milne

51. "...you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count." - A.A. Milne

52. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau

53. "...Real Life is in a desperate condition now because of too many who think too much and care too little. In spite of what many minds have thought themselves into believing, that mistake cannot continue for much longer if everything is going to survive. The one chance we have to avoid certain disaster is to change our approach, and to learn to value wisdom and contentment." - Benjamin Hoff

54. "Cynical realism - it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation." - Aldous Huxley

55. "When I wake up in the morning, everything seems impossible. But by the time the night comes, I feel good about life." - Joseph Arthur

56. "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous . A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - Mao Tse-Tung

57. "Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true and that nothing is what it appears to be." - Daniel Keyes

58. "I am as all mortals are, / unable to be comforted." - Pablo Neruda

59. "The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. - Cyril Parkinson

60. "Bills are a form of existential geography. They are the $ maps of where we've been." - Richard Brautigan
61. "She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison. But she knew she would never be able to make them understand. Embarrassed, she changed the subject." - Milan Kundera