Quotes I Like

This is a list of my favorite quotes. They are taken from fictional characters in books, authors and other expressive people. Some of them have an unknown author.

I never really hated the one true god
but the god of the people I hated.
Marilyn Manson

The motive does not make the weapon holy
because you don't live in the future
you live now
so your weapon is your motive.
-Gandhi-

An eye for an eye
makes the whole world blind.
-Gandhi-

There is more to life
than increasing it's speed.
-Ghandi-

The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-Gandhi-

You must be the change
you wish to see
in the world.
-Ghandi-

Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not.
-George Bernard Shaw-

Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
fire walk with me.
-From Twin Peaks-

"I'm worse at what i do best
and for this gift i feel blessed..."
-Kurt Cobain-

Education is not the filling of a pail
but the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats-

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
-George Bernard Shaw-

Some things are true
whether you believe in them or not.
-From the movie City Of Angels-

All animals are equal
but some animals
are more equal than others.
-From Animal Farm-

The pioneers of a warless world
are the youth that refuse military service.
-Albert Einstein-

What power would Hell have
if those here imprisoned
were not able to dream of Heaven?
-Morpheus in Sandman-

His madness keeps him sane.
-Delirium in Sandman-

I'm lost
I'm going to find myself
If I return before I get back
please ask me to wait.
-Lionel Kendrick-

Fashion is a form of ugliness
so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months.
-Oscar Wilde-

Whenever people agree with me
I always feel I must be wrong.
-Oscar Wilde-

Nearly all men can stand adversity
but if you want to test a man's character
give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln-

We are all in the gutter
but some of us
are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde-

Always forgive your enemies
nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde-

One may have a blazing heart in one's soul
and yet no one ever comes to sit by it
Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke
rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-Vincent Van Gogh-

Better to write for yourself
and have no public
than to write for the public
and have no self.
-Cyril Connolly-

Do not save your loving speeches
for your friends till they are dead
Do not write them on their tombstones
speak them rather now instead.
-Anna Cummins-

I Thirst for color
cry in pain
that my last Kiss
shall be in vain.
-Unknown Author-

That is not dead
which can eternal lie
with strange eons
even death may die.
-From The Necronomicon-

A work of art has no importance
whatsoever to society
It is only important to the individual.
-Vladimir Nabokov-

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody
but one whom nobody can imitate.
-François-René De Chateaubriand-

If you hate a person
you hate something in him
that is part of yourself.
What isn't part of ourselves
doesn't disturb us.
-Hermann Hesse-

The brave die as a hero once
the cowards dies a thousand times in life.
-William Shakespeare-

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities
behind every failure is an opportunity
somebody wishes they had missed.
-Lily Tomlin-

Always remember the last thing
you say to people each day
because what if it happened
to be the last thing
you ever get to say to them?
-Martin Luther King-

What I gave, I have;
what I spent, I had;
what I kept, I lost.
-Old Epitaph-

Learn from the mistakes of others
You can't live long enough
to make them all yourself.
-Unknown Author-

The world is so empty
if one thinks only of mountains
rivers and cities
but to know someone here and there
who thinks and feels with us
and though distant
is close to us in spirit
this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
-Goethe-

Real devils don't need glitter.
-Salman Rushdie-

Hell is emty
all devils are here.
-Shakespeare-

Are you crazy?
Are you high?
Or just an ordinary guy?
Have you done all you can do?
Are you with me doctor?
-Steely Dan-

A God who let us prove
his existence would be an idol.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer-

I believe in Invisiblism
my gods have lightbulbs for eyes
and run on internal combustion engines.
-Unknown Author-

To be nobody but yourself
in a world that's doing its best
night and day to make you
everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle
anyone can fight
and never stop fighting.
-Edward Estlin Cummings-

All that is good will be called evil
and all that is evil will be called good.
-Unknown Author-

I found Jesus
he was hiding behind the couch
the whole time!
-Unknown Author-

As a rule indeed
grown-up people are fairly correct
on matters of fact
It is in the higher gift of imagination
that they are so sadly to seek.
-From The Golden Age-

Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World
said the Rat
And that's something that doesn't matter
either to you or to me
I've never been there
and I'm never going
nor you either
if you've got any sense at all.
-From The Wind In The Willows-

Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people.
-Unknown Author-

It is better to be small
and shine from within
Than to be great
and cast a shadow.
-Unknown Author-

What luck for rulers
that men do not think.
-Adolf Hitler-

Courage is found in unlikely places.
-J. R. R. Tolkien-

Still round the corner there may wait
a new road or a secret gate.
-J. R. R. Tolkien-

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is
has left the path of wisdom.
-Gandalf in Lord Of The Rings-

I don't know half of you
half as well as I should like
and I like less than half of you
half as well as you deserve.
-Bilbo in Lord Of The Rings-

A little nonsense now and then
is cherished by the wisest men.
-Willy Wonka in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory-

I think when we get those moments
where things are just too hard to comprehend
there is a whole different world.
-CS. Lewis-

Each friend represents a world in us
a world possibly not born until they arrive
and it is only by this meeting
that a new world is born.
-Anais Nin-

If you hate your parents
the man or the establishment
don't show them up by getting wasted
and wrapping your car around a tree.
If you really want to rebel against your parents:
outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
-Henry Rollins-