Favourite Quotes And Sayings V3. I'm Serious, And Don't Call Me Shirley

[Erikmen]

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow,
so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am,
I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”

 

[Mysterie]

 

[zombywoof]

I am not young enough to know everything.

 

[Erikmen]

^ Are we ever going to be?

 

[Erikmen]

“You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”

 

[Mysterie]

“I feel a stupefying pressure under my skin. I want to pierce everything and penetrate as far down as possible. I want to reach the depths of the earth. My love is there, in the place where seeds grow green and roots reach one another, and creation perpetuates itself amidst decay. It’s as if my body were a temporary and transient form of it. I want to reach its source. I want to hang my heart like a ripened fruit on all the branches of the trees.”

-Forugh Farrokhzad

 

[Erikmen]

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

 

[Shambles]

"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"

--H. P. Lovecraft

 

[Erikmen]

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

 

[Shambles]

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

--Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

--Edgar Allan Poe

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

I am very much in agreement with Mr Hemingway on that one.

 

[Erikmen]

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

 

[Shambles]

When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

--Heather McGhee

 

[Erikmen]

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë

 

[Shambles]

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

--Albert Camus

 

[Erikmen]

"We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration.
We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”

“Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels."

 

[Shambles]

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

--Confucius

 

[koneko]

^
Too right.



"Quality over quantity."




This quote also includes eadd posts :D

 

[Shambles]

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

--Marcel Proust

 

[Erikmen]

^ Good one.

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

 

[Shambles]

"When the sun is shining outside and the sky is blue, you could indeed think that we are at the beginning of a process of significant change. When it’s raining you think how is it that with all the evidence we have of the failure of drug policies and of the recognition that a world free of drugs is an impossible and unnecessary myth, that the world is not moving faster? The very notion of a world without drugs is totally useless. It serves prohibition and prohibition serves repression and repression serves abuses of human rights and negative impacts on human health.”

--Michel Kazatchkine (the UN special envoy for HIV/Aids in eastern Europe and central Asia and a member of the GCDP, who was one of the first physicians in Europe to treat people with HIV/Aids)

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

Very true!