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#1

""Speak for yourself
You paper tigers
Too late to make demands
When you've got a riot on your hands

Silent alarms are ringing
Sounds of revolt draw near
A new united front
That you will come to fear
We will hold together
To become the change
Those are the voices
With every common man engaged""
— Anberlin

tags: anberlin, lyrics, music
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#2

""Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time.
Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness.
Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again.
The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens.
Every love is carved from loss.
Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be.
But we learn to live in that love.""
— Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: -everything, illuminated-, is
6 people liked it

#3

""the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.""
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: book, chuck, invisible, monsters, palahniuk, quote
6 people liked it

#4

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: beckett, dead, irish, samuel, words, writer
4 people liked it

#5

""Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.""
— John B. Keane

tags: b, b-, getting, hurting, john, keane, keep, tackling, up
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#6

""A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.""
— John B. Keane

tags: footballer, keane, kerry
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#7

"The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: beckett, fuck, irish, off, samuel, writer
8 people liked it

#8

"To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
— e.e. cummings

tags: poetry
574 people liked it

#9

"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: alone, love
273 people liked it

#10

"For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person..."
— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

3 people liked it

#11

"I hate a Roman named Status Quo!" he said to me. "Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.""
— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

tags: hate, life, live, sloth, status-quo
35 people liked it

#12

"There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we're got on damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation.""
— Ray Bradbury

tags: ashes, bird, damn, funeral, making, montag, phoenix, pyre, pyres, silly, stop
3 people liked it

#13

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain."
— Jim Morrison

tags: jim, life, morrison, pain, reality
70 people liked it

#14

"Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

74 people liked it

#15

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one"
— Bruce Lee

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#16

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. "
— Albert Einstein

12 people liked it

#17

"behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."
— Bob Dylan

tags: beautiful, behind, kind, of, pain, thing
73 people liked it

#18

"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: everything, your
6 people liked it

#19

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."
— Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)

tags: truth, writing
67 people liked it

#20

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: growth
770 people liked it

#21

"For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life."
— Cao Yu

tags: best, life, remains, short, try, writer
3 people liked it

#22

"You're on Earth. There's no cure for that."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: life
71 people liked it

#23

"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: rena-silverman, samuel-beckett
44 people liked it

#24

"I can't go on, I'll go on."
— Samuel Beckett (I Can't Go On, I'll Go on: A Selection from Samuel Beckett's Work)

tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy
31 people liked it

#25

"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
— Samuel Beckett (Endgame)

24 people liked it

#26

"Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: krapp-s-last-tape
13 people liked it

#27

"What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!"
— Samuel Beckett

7 people liked it

#28

"Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: memories
10 people liked it

#29

"Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!"
— Samuel Beckett

8 people liked it

#30

"I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit."
— Samuel Beckett

6 people liked it

#31

"We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench""
— Samuel Beckett

9 people liked it

#32

"I've got my faults, but changing my tune isn't one of them."
— Samuel Beckett

6 people liked it

#33

"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."
— Samuel Beckett

9 people liked it

#34

"How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?"
— Samuel Beckett

2 people liked it

#35

"Yes, light, there is no other word for it."
— Samuel Beckett

2 people liked it

#36

"Habit is a great deadener."
— Samuel Beckett

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#37

"My dear Tom,
Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured."
— Samuel Beckett

2 people liked it

#38

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter, try again, fail again, fail better."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: failure
146 people liked it

#39

"From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it."
— Samuel Beckett

2 people liked it

#40

"Words are all we have."
— Samuel Beckett

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#41

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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