Jenn's favorite quotes

"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

tags: age, youth

117 people liked it

"You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: life, pessimism

55 people liked it

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: life

551 people liked it

"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

156 people liked it

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."
— Khaled Hosseini

133 people liked it

"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
— Khaled Hosseini

tags: man, men, woman, women

93 people liked it

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

84 people liked it

"One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

54 people liked it

"it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

49 people liked it

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

tags: education, marriage

32 people liked it

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: human-nature, weekend

99 people liked it

"Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby)

tags: big-brother

83 people liked it

"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

94 people liked it

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized yet."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: chaos, patterns

78 people liked it

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

88 people liked it

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: history

80 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life

1,531 people liked it

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life

756 people liked it

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: reality

541 people liked it

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

459 people liked it

"The things you own end up owning you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

246 people liked it

"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: death, durden, scars, tyler

264 people liked it

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

tags: chance, happiness, risk

212 people liked it

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: life

235 people liked it

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
— Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing

78 people liked it

"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."
— Dylan Thomas

tags: death, love

62 people liked it

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
— Dylan Thomas

16 people liked it

"We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.
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— Dylan Thomas

11 people liked it

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
— Dylan Thomas

14 people liked it

"" I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression."

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— Dylan Thomas

7 people liked it

"I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream."
— Dylan Thomas

8 people liked it

""... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.”"
— Dylan Thomas

2 people liked it

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night."
— Allen Ginsberg

45 people liked it

"The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. "
— Allen Ginsberg

37 people liked it

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."
— Allen Ginsberg

47 people liked it

"Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!"
— Allen Ginsberg (Howl and Other Poems)

21 people liked it

"we're all golden sunflowers inside."
— Allen Ginsberg

tags: contentment, happiness, love

24 people liked it

"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
— Allen Ginsberg

tags: america

13 people liked it

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
— Allen Ginsberg

19 people liked it

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "
— Allen Ginsberg

tags: art

11 people liked it

"what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination"
— Allen Ginsberg (Howl and Other Poems)

tags: howl

8 people liked it

"The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open."
— Allen Ginsberg (Howl and Other Poems)

2 people liked it

"My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves."
— Allen Ginsberg (Howl and Other Poems)

5 people liked it

"in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night"
— Allen Ginsberg (Howl: Original Draft Facsimile)

tags: america, howl

3 people liked it

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings

tags: courage

2,227 people liked it

"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

432 people liked it

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
— e.e. cummings

tags: god, joy, life, spirituality

214 people liked it

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
— e.e. cummings

tags: inspirational

91 people liked it

"the earth laughs in flowers."
— e.e. cummings

tags: nature

82 people liked it

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea."
— e.e. cummings

tags: water

53 people liked it

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