"I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.

I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you."
— Clive Barker (Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War)

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
— H.P. Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories)

"Midian is where the monsters go."
— Clive Barker

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

"You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you."
— Poppy Z. Brite (Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories)

"As wicked as you are... You're beautiful to me.
You're the darkest burning star, you're my perfect disease.
"
— Five Finger Death Punch

"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things."
— Tom Waits

"you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song."
— Grimm

"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."
— Don DeLillo (White Noise)

"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

"If there were no desire to heal,
The damaged and broken met along
this tedious path I’ve chosen here,
I certainly would’ve walked away, by now.

And I still may... "
— Maynard James Keenan

"Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century)

"The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

""Nothing is ever truly gone...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow."
-Hem at Zelika's grave "
— Alison Croggon (The Crow: The Third Book of Pellinor)

"...and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming..."
— Tom Waits

"Worker bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave"
— Tyler Durden

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels."
— Clive Barker (Mister B. Gone)

"That night in the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door, a thick carpet on the floor of the room, outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful, then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets and the bed comfortable, feeling the we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once. I have been alone while I was with many girls and that is the way you can be most lonely. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except that it was an even better time. If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to hill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"The secret of joy is the mastery of pain."
— Anaïs Nin

"There he goes. One of God s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable"
— Hunter S. Thompson

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"
— Hunter S. Thompson

"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk."
— Tom Waits

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm..."
— James O'Barr

"I'd rather hate you for everything you are
Than ever love you for something you are not
I'd rather you hate me for everything I am
Than have you love me for something that I can't"
— Five Finger Death Punch

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

"'Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
- Don Juan"
— George Gordon Byron

"Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things."
— Tom Waits

"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Nobody speaks the truth when there s something they must have."
— Dunno

"When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane."
— Tom Waits

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
— Albert Einstein

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."
— Ernest Hemingway

"From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life."
— Anaïs Nin

"In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

"Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.'"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

"THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"
— Hunter S. Thompson

""NOBODY KNOWS THE WEIRDNESS I'VE SEEN ON THE TRAIL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO""
— Hunter S. Thompson

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
— Tom Waits

"I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in."
— Charles Manson

""We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still
change the world.""
— Evey Hammond, "V for Vendetta"

"Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr. Creedy and ideas are bulletproof."
— V.

"My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy."
— William Shakespeare

"Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings)

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche