quotes

*Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun...--Ani Difranco*

*It's surprising what some people convince themselves to avoid being alone.--Todd Dorman*

*All things end badly, otherwise, why would they end?--Anon*

*Everyone thinks of changing humanity, but no one thinks of changing himself.--Tolstoy*

*Everything you love will eventually either reject you or die.--from 'Fight Club'*

*Experience is the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde*

*My life has a superb cast...now if only I would figure out the plot.--Anon*

*A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory.--Stephen Wright*

*You haven't really lived until you've found someone worth dying for.--anon*

*It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.--Thomas Sowell*

*True love stories have no real endings.--some quote Kyle found.*

*Love is the wisdom of the fool, and the folly of the wise.--Samuel Johnson*

*Every little girl knows about love. It's only her capacity to suffer because of it that changes.--Francois Sagan*

*Love is a mental disease.--Plato*

*If this is peace maybe I need something else entirely.--Anon*

*Fear preludes hope.--Anon*

*It's when you run away that you're most likely to stumble.--Casey Robinson*

*I am merely a product of circumstance.--me*

*Never be so blinded by someone's splendor that you overlook their very obvious faults.--me again*

*Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay a while and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never, ever the same.--anon*

*The terrible thing about hell, is that when you're there you can't even tell.--phish*

*I'm living for something I can't even define--Ani*

*I always knew there'd be a day when I'd look back at the days I cried and laugh, but I never thought I'd see the day when I'd look back at the days I laughed and cry.--anon*

*Fear only prohibits happiness.--Shara, in all her wisdom:)*

*If I knew where I was going, I'd already be there.--Billy Corgan.*

*I'm not quoted on there. No, I'm not mad. That would be stupid...--Shane*

*Stacey, when Nine Inch Nails tours again we are going to go see them together and rest assured in the knowledge that we are not leading each other on.--Chris, making me laugh, as usual*

*One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.--Eugene O'Neill*

*By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid, and sterotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged they perfume life; discouraged they poison it.--Joseph Collins*

*Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.--Elburt Hubbard*

*Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.--George Washington Carver*

*When we're lying flat on our backs there is no where to look but up.--Roger W. Babson*

*Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.--James F. Byrnes*

*Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship and I will show you two old or homely faces.--Austin O'Malley*

*Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.--Robert anthony*

*I just want you to live up to the image of you I created...I see you and I'm so unsatisfied...I see you and I die.--Ani*

*Would you catch me if I was fallin, would you kiss me if I were leavin', would you hold me because I'm lonely...without you.--Counting Crows*

*I am spinning with longing faster than a roulette wheel. This is not who I meant to be. This is not how I meant to feel.--Ani*

*Just when you think you have the world on a string, someone comes along with scissors.--Anon*

*I see the world moving perfectly around me, but I am still perfectly locked inside myself.--from 'The Doors' film*

*If you're gonna do it over do it. That's how you know you're alive.--Ani*

*I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some insignificant preamble to something else.--from 'Dazed and Confused'*

*Was it love? Or was it the idea of being in love?--Pink Floyd*

*I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will always bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.--Anon*

*The only second chances you get in life are the chances to make the same mistake twice.--from State and Main*

*Into every life a little rain must fall, but I think someone has mistaken me for Noah.--Allison Raul*

*I have earned my disillusionment...--Ani*

*We don't say everything that we could, so we can say later 'oh, you misunderstood,' I hold my cards up close to my chest, I say what I have to and hold back the rest...--Ani*

*It's a folly to pretend one wholly recovers
From a disappointed passion.
Such wonders always leave a scar.
There are faces I can never look upon without emotion;
there are names I can never hear spoken
without almost starting to cry. --Lord Byron*

*I have no trouble with my enemies...but my goddamn friends, they're the ones that keep me walking the floors at night. --Oscar Levant*

*I quite possibly may have invented the phenomenon of being everything and nothing at the same time.*

*Falling in love is just that--falling. Sometimes you merely trip and stub your toe. Sometimes you fall to your hands and knees. But sometimes you smack your head against the pavement and die. --Anon*

*Everything will be alright in the end--if it's not right, then it's not the end.--Anon*

*Actions are the first tragedy of life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. --Oscar Wilde*

*The truth is rarely pure and never simple.--Oscar Wilde*

*What one really wants is not to be either blamed or praised, but to be understood.--Oscar Wilde*

*Friendship is more tragic than love. It lasts longer.--Oscar Wilde*

*A thing is not necessarily true because someone died for it.--Oscar Wilde*

*People...they go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realizing that they are probably thinking other people's thoughts, living by other people's standards, wearing other people's second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single second.--Oscar Wilde*

*One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.--African Proverb*