Excellent Quotations

"People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out..."

Sun, 20 May 2012 21:49:23 -0600

“People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.”

- WIlliam S. Burroughs, The Western Lands (via honeyforthehomeless)

"I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:42:20 -0600

“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I’d cry for a week.”

- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via iamjenye)

"There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the pointless drama and people who..."

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:09:12 -0600

“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the pointless drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right; pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life; getting back up is living.”

- Karl Marx (via sixtydiamondminutes)

"I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then..."

Thu, 03 May 2012 12:02:07 -0600

“I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.”

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via bookmania)

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.” -William Golding

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:43:07 -0600

“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”

-William Golding

"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:53:08 -0600

“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”

- Karl Marx (via theredhammerandsickle)

Hermann Hesse, Demian

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:05:13 -0600

Hermann Hesse, Demian

"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:28:17 -0600

“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor - not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.”

- Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (1949)

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic..."

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:39:54 -0600

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

- Aldo Leopold (via citizenengineer)

"Secrets go faster than moles underground."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:06:30 -0600

“Secrets go faster than moles underground.”

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

"We come into the world and we have to go: but we do not go merely to serve the turn of one enemy or..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:05:37 -0600

“We come into the world and we have to go: but we do not go merely to serve the turn of one enemy or another. If that were so, we would all be destroyed in a day.”

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

"Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill,..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:04:00 -0600

“Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sid down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

"There are times when we know for a certainty that all is well."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:01:37 -0600

“There are times when we know for a certainty that all is well.”

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:43:05 -0600

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

- Hermann Hesse (via libraryland)

"All human beings are dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:46:15 -0600

“All human beings are dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”

- Jack Kerouac (via des0lationintheworld)

"We’re living off the overcapacity of our forefathers."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:51:09 -0600

“We’re living off the overcapacity of our forefathers.”

- Jerry Del Tufo

Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

"The ecosystem here will be a human artifact that will persist in our absence, a cosmopolitan..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:47:34 -0600

“The ecosystem here will be a human artifact that will persist in our absence, a cosmopolitan botanical mixture that would never have occurred without us.”

- Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

"No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:44:43 -0600

“No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange place where they cannot see…”

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

"Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who likes an open,..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:43:13 -0600

“Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he’s deceiving?”

- Richard Adams, Watership Down

"What is now proved was once only imagin’d."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:35:07 -0600

“What is now proved was once only imagin’d.”

- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell