Dottie Dellamorte > Dottie's Quotes

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

“...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death.
There was nothing now but firelight in the room,
And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath
It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal

“When I was young I lived a constant storm,
Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through,
So in my garden few red fruits were born,
The rain and thunder had so much to do.

- The Enemy”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans; I hate movement for it displaces lines, And never do I weep and never do I laugh.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal

“The panting lover bending o'er his fair one Looks like a dying man caressing his own tomb,”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal

“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.”
― Baudelaire Charles 1821-1867 Charles

“It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,
that soft summer morning
round a turning in the path,
the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,
its legs in the air like a woman in need
burning its wedding poisons
like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs,
I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound,
but I touch my body in vain to find the wound.
I am the vampire of my own heart,
one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter
who can no longer smile.
Am I dead?
I must be dead.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.”
― Charles Beaudelaire

“And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”
― charles baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

“As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

“Their mask reflects what you seek and that is what makes it so nice at first. A manufactured mirror of your dreams.”
― Tracy Malone

“Love of God," he said slowly, searching for words, "is not always
the same as love of good, I wish it were that simple. We know what
is good, it is written in the Commandments. But God is not
contained only in the Commandments, you know; they are only an
infinitesimal part of Him. A man may abide by the Commandments
and be far from God.”
― Hermann Hesse

“People don't change.'

'People change entirely,' I said. 'Look at Narcissus. Became a flower. I call that change.”
― Kamila Shamsie

“And was it not perhaps more childlike and human to lead a Goldmund-life, more courageous, more noble perhaps in the end to abandon oneself to the cruel stream of reality, to chaos, to commit sins and accept their bitter consequences rather than live a clean life with washed hands outside the world, laying out a lonely harmonious thought-garden, strolling sinlessly among one's sheltered flower beds. Perhaps it was harder, braver and nobler to wander through forests and along the highways with torn shoes, to suffer sun and rain, hunger and need, to play with the joys of the senses and pay for them with suffering.
At any rate, Goldmund had shown him that a man destined for high things can dip into the lowest depths of the bloody, drunken chaos of life, and soil himself with much dust and blood, without becoming small and common, without killing the divine spark within himself, that he can err through the thickest darkness without extinguishing the divine light and the creative force inside the shrine of his soul.”
― Herman Hesse

“The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this."
"Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“But that’s the thing about narcissists. They can try to fool you, with all their heart, but in the end, they’re just fooling themselves.”
― Ellie Fox, And then the Devil Cried: Episode Two

“You consider yourself, your most fascinating subject.”
― Britt Bennett

“Change is the only permanent thing in our lives. Sometimes things change for the immediate good; other times we ask why. Just because you don't understand today doesn't mean there isn't a lesson we must learn.”
― Tracy Malone

“What you end up regretting is not the things you did, but the things you didn't do.”
― Tracy A. Malone