Amanda Zylstra > Amanda's Quotes

“Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun

into graceful shafts of light…
I just want to be pure.”
― Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I'm sorry little bird But that was the way you were made. There will always be distance. But we will make sure your gilded cage Is resplendent. You will live seperate, but we will keep you so busy That you don't know You're not free.”
― Rex Emerson Jackson, Pretty Good Year - A Bipolar Poetry Anthology

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.”
― Rebecca O'Donnell, Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

“everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”
― Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

“Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free!!”
― Leonard Cohen

“It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.”
― Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
― Jim Carroll

“I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute.”
― Gail Blanke, Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life

“Courage comes with action. The minute you step forward, the minute you declare your decision, the minute you say, "This is how it's going to go," courage comes. It floods through you and energizes every single fiber of your being. You don't have to wait for it. It'll be there.”
― Gail Blanke

“Whenever Insecurity whispers In your ear, telling you how much you suck, tell it to shut the hell up. Then keep going forward anyway.”
― Rebecca O'Donnell, Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

“Have you ever gotten to a point where you looked at your own life, thought "Fu** this," and reached for the economy-sized Valium? Ah, suicide. So dark and seductive.”
― Rebecca O'Donnell, Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

“I'm not responsible for what other people think, only for what I am.”
― Donald Hamilton, The Big Country

“Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“I’ve always been paranoid about the police, because even when I’m not doing anything illegal I’m thinking about doing something illegal.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“Every true artist is at war with the world.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

“If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“People are not punished for their deeds but by them”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come