"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort; with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
— Douglas Adams

"I think there's something strangely musical about noise."
— Trent Reznor

"My delusionary hell does not agree with yours."
— Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut)

"Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me."
— Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut)

"Dear Die-ary, there's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt. I can't say I'm very pleased with where my life is just now... but I can't help but look forward to where it's going."
— Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut)

"Oh, Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries!"
— Anne Rice (Interview with the Vampire)

" Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers."
— William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man)

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

"If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
— George Carlin

"I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference."
— Marilyn Manson

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine"
— Bruce Lee

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"Te amo como se aman ciertas cosa oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
(I love you as certain darks things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.)"
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

"... in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Demon in My View)

"...the shadows are as important as the light..."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

"The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say."
— Gregory Maguire (Mirror Mirror)

"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

"No, no, I am but shadow of myself:
You are deceived, my substance is not here;"
— William Shakespeare

"A wolf cannot outrun its shadow"
— Russian proverb

"People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

"Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality."
— Anaïs Nin

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted- nevermore!"
— Edgar Allan Poe

"Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us."
— Brent Weeks (Shadow's Edge)

"..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in."
— Brent Weeks (The Way of Shadows)

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
— William S. Burroughs

"When we truly love, it is never lost. It is only after death that the depth of the bond is truly felt, and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life."
— Oriental tradition.

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death."
— Fran Lebowitz