JRob > JRob's Quotes

“Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign… to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very own skin. Quirrel, full of hatred, greed, and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Remember seeker, our earthly perceptions of reality are just an illusion.”
― Earthschool Harmony, Back To Grace: Spiritual Poetry & Reflections

“Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.”
― Maria Erving

“There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
― Morrissey

“I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.”
― Morrissey

“Disappointment came to me,
and booted me,
and bruised and hurt me,
but that's how people grow up.”
― Morrissey

“You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.”
― Morrissey

“It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”
― Morrissey

“Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head.”
― Morrissey

“It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true.
It only hurts because it's true.”
― Morrissey

“Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.”
― Morrissey

“I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.”
― Morrissey

“Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.”
― Morrissey

“I'd love to...but only with you.”
― Morrissey

“David [Bowie] quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.”
― Morrissey

“Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed D.J.
Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life”
― Steven Morrissey

“With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.”
― Morrissey

“There are more than enough
to fight and oppose;
why waste good time
fighting the people you like?”
― Morrissey

“A heartless hand on my shoulder
A push and it's over
Alabaster crashes down
Six months is a long time
Tried living in the real world
Instead of a shell
But before I began
I was bored before I even began”
― Morrissey

“Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you.
Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.”
― Morrissey

“And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.”
― Morrissey