Favorite Quotes

[memento_mori]

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Terry Pratchett

 

[Just4ride]

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. Bill Hicks

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called human. Friedrich Nietzsche

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed.
Abraham Lincoln

 

[RainAndSadness]

"Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind." - Guru Laghima (Legend of Korra)

I know this quote wasn't intended to be about death, but it makes sense in the context of suicide.

 

[Tortured_empath]

"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
- Mark Twain

 

[Ukmale]

"Only the madman is absolutely sure." - Robert Anton Wilson

 

[Dartz]

"Are you trying to live fast and die young?"

"Why not? There's no point to anything anymore. I hate this place. I hate this era my birth thrust me in to. A world where God is dead. I just wanted a shot at him. There's nothing left in this boring world to interest me."

 

[Life+me=error]

"Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death."

 

[LastFlowers]

This one is not as extraordinarily existential but-

"You didnt save my life! You ruined my death!"

-suicidal dude from The Incredibles

 

[Just4ride]

 

[bacardirum]

He who chops the wood heats himself twice...

 

[Just4ride]

Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.

 

[Ruffian]

I love this thread - looks like OP is at peace. "No one really knows where the edge is, because the only who know are the ones who have gone over." Hunter S. Thompson. May not be exact.

from David Foster Wallace

Ugh. I've seen that quote before and it always makes me think of the children in Waco. Idk if you're old enough to remember it or know about it, but it's a horrible thought.

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

~ Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

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"I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air — look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither..."

~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

I've only ever bought 2 movies outright online. Hamlet is one of them. It's like a blueprint of depression.

"If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do."
― Stephen Fry

AWWW, That made me tear up;

 

[ExitTheDay]

"All mistakes can be marked by borders"
- The Devil Wears Prada, Song: Danger: Wildman

 

[Conflicted Cat]

Oh man, I feel like I could put a whole bunch of Max Payne 2 quotes in here.

"Throw the rules out the window, odds are you'll go that way too."

"Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It's a losing game. Without passion you are already dead."

"There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask "why me?" and "what if?". When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions."

"When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. Luck and I weren't on speaking terms."

"I felt the rise of that old familiar feeling. I hated it. I welcomed it."

"A funhouse is a linear sequence of scares. Take it or leave it is the only choice given. Makes you think about free will: have our choices been made for us because of who we are?"

 

[kolski]

'There are no happy endings. Endings are always the saddest part. So just me a happy middle, and a very happy start.'

 

[Ruffian]

Johnny Mandel – Suicide Is Painless

The Tongue-in-cheek theme song for the very sad tongue-in-cheek comedy about the Korean war – directed at the Vietnam war – for both film and TV series. The film was released in

genius.com

 

[Just4ride]

 

[dhk96]

"...In solitude, where we are least alone."
--Lord Byron

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And then some quotes from Harmony by Project Itoh:

"This was the society that Miach hated. Parents couldn't choose their children, but children didn't get to choose anything. 'I would have at least liked to pick the world I have to live in,' Miach used to say."


"--We've taken the mechanics of nature--things we didn't even understand before--and outsourced them. Getting sick, living, who knows what's next? Maybe even thinking. These things used to belong just to us, they could only belong to us, and now they're a part of the market system--"


"Death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it."
(--Michael Foucault)

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"It was easy to think of evolution as meaning forward progress, when in reality we, and all living things, were just assorted attempts at survival. So why put human consciousness up on the altar....Morality, holiness--these were just things our brains picked up along the way..."

"I don't think I could go with all these [books] still here."​

"Go where?"​

"To the other side, away from here. To the place people call heaven or hell. To nothing. I'm afraid these little ones would hold me back, keep me bound here. Besides, if I waited any longer, I'd be too weak to carry them."​

 

[Dead beat dad]

Post your favorite quotes here.

"...It's better to burn out than fade away."
-Kurt Cobain

"Misery is weakness"
-Charles Manson

"Oh man f*** the future!"

"No no no Tony, you don't f, the future. The future fs YOU!"

Saturday night fever

 

[Johnnythefox]

A bit of S&M never hurt anyone.
J. Fox

Does God have a face,
Is God full of grace to you,
Does God have a name,
Does God cause you pain too?
J. Fox

 

[Just4ride]

 

[H2H2]

" I am a cage, in search of a bird "
Kafka

 

[famblycat]

"...
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night"

- William Blake

 

[not_a_robot]

"I don't hate people. But I always seem to feel better when they're not around." --c. bukowski

"Love doesn't exist."--Alan James

 

[Halo13]

 

[Severen]

"It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep." - ???

 

[Severen]

"It's called an American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin

 

[Ruffian]

MACBETH

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
25That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

---William Shakespeare

It's better to burn out, then it is to rust. --Johnny Rotten

 

[Rukia]

"You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want." - Ging Freecss (Hunter x Hunter)

 

[Pointlessabyss]

"Sometimes dead is better" ― Stephen King

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." ― J.K. Rowling

"Death always wins" ― Kelly Creagh

"We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that to make you sad. I am saying that so you can cherish each moment in your life and be grateful that you are here and you are Special" ― Pablo