Jamie's quotes

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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
788 people liked it

"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever."
— Aristophanes

18 people liked it

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

tags: it-s-so-true
2,228 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,732 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,875 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,301 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,612 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,674 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,778 people liked it

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: food, love, music
1,145 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare
447 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

367 people liked it

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare

tags: hamlet, identity, possibilities
262 people liked it

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
— William Shakespeare

tags: comedy, elizabethan, goodfellow, robin
249 people liked it

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

102 people liked it

"Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

38 people liked it

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
— William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

tags: attempt, doubts, fear, traitors
104 people liked it

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

tags: inspirational, religion
432 people liked it

"Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

30 people liked it

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
— Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

tags: afterlife, hell, morality, neutrality
60 people liked it

"Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer.
--Dante Pontis "
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Kiss of the Night)

24 people liked it

"The path to paradise begins in hell."
— Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise
15 people liked it

"Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love."
— Publius Ovidius Naso

14 people liked it

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
— Publius Ovidius Naso

14 people liked it

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
— Publius Ovidius Naso

3 people liked it

"That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw. - Hesiod"
— Aristotle

2 people liked it

"Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love."
— Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil: ECLOGUES)

9 people liked it

"Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)"
— Publius Vergilius Maro (The Aeneid)

tags: classics, epic, poetry
4 people liked it

"They can conquer who believe they can."
— Publius Vergilius Maro

5 people liked it

"Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
-Zarek"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

208 people liked it

"I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.
--Zarek"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dance With The Devil)

120 people liked it

"Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
- Acheron"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

46 people liked it

"Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
--Acheron Parthenopaeus"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Kiss of the Night)

tags: life
37 people liked it

"I wasn't born, I was unleashed. (Jaden)"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

29 people liked it

"In your past lies your future. [Acheron Parthenopaeus]"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

tags: acheron, dark, hunter, kenyon, sherrilyn
32 people liked it

"The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. (Savitar)"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon

tags: acheron, dark, hunter, kenyon, savitar, sherrilyn
26 people liked it

"Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dance With The Devil)

16 people liked it

"" Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before i mistake myself for a god." -Acheron"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

20 people liked it

"'Hopeless' implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices." [Zarek]"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dance With The Devil)

7 people liked it

"You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down.

-Savitar"
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Acheron)

tags: acheron, savitar
8 people liked it

"You must have had such a great childhood with a man like that for your father."

"Yeah. All puppy dogs and rainbows and those weird furry people with padded coat hangers on their heads that look like space aliens on acid."

Berith paused as he brushed debris off his clothes to frown. "You mean the Teletubbies?"

Jericho gave him a smirk. "The fact that you know what they're called, Berith, truly scares me."

Berith shrugged. "As a demon of torture, it behooves me to know all things that are deeply annoying. You'd be amazed how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as Teletubbies."

Jericho snorted. "Not really. I'd rather battle a brain-eating zombie any day than hear them sing."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dream Warrior)

tags: berith, delphine, dream, jericho, kenyon, sherrilyn, warrior
5 people liked it

"For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent."
— Plautus

2 people liked it

"Hell is just a frame of mind."
— Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus)

tags: hell
15 people liked it

"Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?

Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.

Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?

Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)"
— Christopher Marlowe (Dr Faustus: the A-text)

tags: damnation, faustus, hell, lucifer, mephistopheles
3 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night
576 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception
341 people liked it

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

48 people liked it

"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results."
— Edgar Allan Poe

34 people liked it

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
— Edgar Allan Poe

32 people liked it