Nietzsche wrote:

I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.

Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but that God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and the esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth.

Sharnii's sadness reminded me of this quote. I'm often filled with wrath toward "Christians" who claim they "love" people, but then do terrible terrible things to them in the name of an unseen god. If you "love" us, how about you not make people I care about feel like a fucking mistake because of something so trivial as who they like to kiss. If people like Sharnii and all my other gay or bi friends end up in hell, then I better end up down there with them. In fact, I might even go suck a dick to make sure.

My friend wrote:

"I'LL SLIT YOU!"

Stormcrow wrote:

Nietzsche wrote:

I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go.

Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but that God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and the esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth.

Sharnii's sadness reminded me of this quote. I'm often filled with wrath toward "Christians" who claim they "love" people, but then do terrible terrible things to them in the name of an unseen god. If you "love" us, how about you not make people I care about feel like a fucking mistake because of something so trivial as who they like to kiss. If people like Sharnii and all my other gay or bi friends end up in hell, then I better end up down there with them. In fact, I might even go suck a dick to make sure.

And your post reminded me of something I was told earlier this year:

RandomPersonofAwesimity wrote:

"Even Heaven is not worth anything without your friends to share it

This is one that I use over and over and over again said by Joan Crawford, "If I can't be me, than I don't want to be anybody."

"Men have called me mad...but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence." - Edgar Allen Poe

"Aspire to inspire before you expire." - Barb Ann. Most definately my favourite.

Just reading these quotes reminded me...

You go to heaven for the weather and hell for the company.

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"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world; not even our troubles."
-Charles Chaplin.

Last edited by dollface (02-26-2010 06:07:30 AM)

LectitoErgoSum wrote:

The word and nought else
    in time endures.
    Not you long after,
    perished and mute
    will last, but the defter
    viol and lute.

Wish I could remember what it's from...

Wow, I wonder where you ran across that!  Google Books suggests it's from an obscure poem called "Iliad" (not the famous one) by the equally obscure poet Humbert Wolfe.  It's also very good in full:

Humbert Wolfe wrote:

FALSE dreams, all false,
mad heart, were yours,
The word, and nought else,
in time endures.
Not you long after,
perished and mute,
will last, but the defter
viol and lute,
Sweetly they'll trouble
the listeners
with the cold dropped pebble
of painless verse.
Not you will be offered,
but the poet's false pain.
Mad heart, you have suffered,
and loved in vain.
What joy doth Helen
or Paris have
Where these lie still in
a nameless grave?
Her beauty's a wraith,
and the boy Paris
muffles in death
his mouth's cold cherries.
Aye! these are less,
that were love's summer,
than one gold phrase
of old blind Homer?
Not Helen's wonder
nor Paris stirs,
but the bright untender
hexameters.
And thus, all passion
is nothing made,
but a star to flash in
an Iliad.

It's like what would happen if you crossed Shakespeare's Sonnet 55 with Wakaba's duel song.

Last edited by satyreyes (02-24-2010 12:11:25 AM)

Wow, satyreyes, thanks! I've got a good few old and/or obscure bits of poetry and quotes in my head, I guess, mostly second- or third-hand.

Where did I read this one...Oh oh oh I know. These are utterly and completely amazing. They're shadowplays, featuring, well, the shadow play girls, and they're confusing and twisty and chock-full of allusions and illusions to boot. Also, funny. Go forth and read them, I command you.

Ahaha, I post here too much. There are just so many good quotes floating about in the world, waiting for me to find them.


"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I, or the others crazy?"
-Albert Einstein

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
-Mark Twain

(And, similarly:) "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
-James Anthony Froud

"All secrets are deep; all secrets become dark. That is the nature of secrets."
-Cory Doctorow

"Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Leo Tolstoy

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed."
-G.K. Chesterton

"Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?"
-Erasmus

"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He's simply the acceptable face of invading realities."
-Clive Barker

"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
-Frank Miller

"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won."
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
-Tom Stoppard

"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
-Benjamin Franklin

"I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."
-Bob Dylan

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
-Albert Einstein

"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love."
-Francoise Sagan

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
-Terry Pratchett

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us; and sometimes, they win."
-Stephen King

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it."
-Helen Keller

dollface wrote:

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln

This quote is true, wise, and popularly misattributed   It's actually from Adlai Stevenson -- also a great statesman, if not quite as great as Abraham Lincoln!!

Though Lincoln did say some things I've heard attributed to others!  You know the line about how you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time?  That wasn't P.T. Barnum -- it was Lincoln!  The thing about not changing horses in the middle of a stream?  Abe again!  He also said some great lines you don't hear, like "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."  Hee hee.  Good old Abe. 

A quote dump for a few ones I like from the Gautama Buddha. :nerd:

-Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

-Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

-Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

-Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

-He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

-However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

-In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

-In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

There are many more which I personally find interesting and good to think about, assuming they are really what was said, but I believe I pulled them from this page.

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves."
- Bill Hicks, "Positive Drug Story