QUOTES

"No culture has a monopoly on beauty or value....Just as no religion has a monopoly on truth."
--Voltaire

"One owes respect to the living. To the dead one owes only truth."
--Voltaire

"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
--Voltaire

"Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous."
--Voltaire

"in certain cases...one remains a philosopher only by being silent."
--Friedrich Neitzshe

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
--Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays to be intellibible is to be found out."
--Oscar Wilde

"I'm not afraid. Afraid to die. And the rain is falling, and I believe my time has come...it reminds me of the pain I might leave behind...."
--Jeff Buckley

"Death
It's not death if you refuse it...
it is if you accept it.
--James O'Barr from the graphic novel The Crow

"...death was also a mother and a mistress; its call a mating call, its touch a shudder of love."
--Hermann Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund

"Son coeur est un luth suspenda; sitot qu'on le touch il resonne."
"Her heart is like a suspended lute; as soon as you touch it, it reverberates"
--De Beranger

"O proud Death, What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, That thou so many princes at a shot So bloodily hast struck?"
--Fortinbras from William Shakespeare's Hamlet

"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be."
--Mephistophilis from Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

"Ordinary morality is for ordinary people...Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"
--Aleister Crowly

"Good is what you like, Evil is what you dislike."
--Anton Szandor LaVey

"...And the devil in a black dress watches over, my guardian angel walks away.
Life is short and love is always over in the morning..."
--The Sisters of Mercy Temple of Love (1992)

"Reality is perception. Perceptions change. Reality is fluid. So if by 'reality' you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events, then there's no such thing."
--Deliverance 'Del' Payne from Dean Koontz's TickTock

"If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling 'Full length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you--are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength Fall of the House of Usher crap!!'

After mercilessly pummeling poor troubled Poe with the manuscript of The Tell-Tale Heart, his agent would no doubt shriek at him, 'Novels, novels, novels, you moron! Writing novels is where the money is Eddie! Listen, take that weird Masque of the Red Death thing, shorten the title to something punchier like Red Death, pump it up to at least three hundred thousand words, make a doorstop out of it, and then you'll have something! We might even get a film sale! And will ya write in a role for Jim Carrey for God's sake? Couldn't this Red Death character be a little less solemn Eddie? Couldn't he be a little goofy?'"
--Dean Koontz

"Reason is folly, and philosophy a lie....Yet will men still persist in reasoning, and philosophizing, and making themselves fools. There is, I find, no hereafter but this."
--Edgar Allen Poe Loss of Breath

"There is often method in madness."
--Unknown

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
--Jules de Gaultier

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
--Unknown

"Why should I conform to what you want to see when I am already what I want to be."
--Unknown

"The light at the end of the tunnel is only the fire that burns in hell."
--The Reaper

"In the battle between good and evil...evil has more fun!"
--Unknown

"Control is an illusion which humanity's created. Anarchy's an instinct which technology's sedated."
--FleshField

"Within the light of life, there shall always dwell the darkness of death"
--Sean McManus

"I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it"
--Unknown

"It's only a sin if you feel guilty,"
--Mark Dorgan