Any quotes?

Anyone have any quotes they really like, would like to share, or just have lying around? I'll start it off with a few. "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper." ~T.S. Eliot "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep, because reality is finally better than your dreams." ~Dr.Seuss "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world was here first." ~Mark Twain

"I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself." - Rodman Edward Serling The Twilight Zone

This. XD I'm totally going to use this now. http://i.imgur.com/F3vS9Dq.jpg But more realistically, "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy." They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." -John Lennon

Good choices, both of them. Great call using The Twilight Show, I haven't watched some of that in a little over a year now.

"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." The Old Astronomer To His Pupil by Sarah Williams

My favorite quotes are from novels so they get long. I have a few jems from the Tropic of Capricorn, one of my favorite books. Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. From the beginning it was never anything but chaos: it was a fluid which enveloped me, which I breathed in through the gills. In the substrata, where the moon shone steady and opaque, it was smooth and fecundating; above it was a jangle and a discord. In everything I quickly saw the opposite, the contradiction, and between the real and the unreal the irony, the paradox. I was my own worst enemy. There was nothing I wished to do which I could just as well not do. Even as a child, when I lacked for nothing, I wanted to die: I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for. Everybody around me was a failure, or if not a failure, ridiculous. Especially the successful ones. The successful ones bored me to tears. I was sympathetic to a fault, but it was not sympathy that made me so. It was purely negative quality, a weakness which blossomed at the mere sight of human misery. I never helped anyone expecting that it would do me any good; I helped because I was helpless to do otherwise. To want to change the condition of affairs seemed futile to me; nothing would be altered, I was convinced, except by a change of heart, and who could change the hearts of men? Now and then a friend was converted: it was something to make me puke. I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face. Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box. ------- For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. ----- I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think. --- If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. --- I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first. Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

Miller wrote the Tropic of Cancer first. If I recall correctly it takes place in Paris when he was in his 30s. The book was banned for a couple decades in the US. Capricorn was written after Cancer but was in America when he was in his 20s. ---- "I want to be able to surrender myself to a woman...I want her to take me out of myself. But to do that, she's got to be better than I am; she's got to have a mind, not just a cunt. She's got to make me believe that I need her, that I can't live without her. ... If she could only make me believe that there was something more important on earth than myself." Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is unknown, but today is a gift that is why it is called the present. There's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart and you can never go wrong. The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.