quote an author here

[Alexis Gold]

Originally Posted by MacIX

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
~ Salvador Dali

Ha ha, I'll say that sometimes.

In its origin a poem is something completely unequivocal. It is a discharge, a call, a cry, a sigh, a gesture, a reaction by which the living soul seeks to defend itself from or to become of an emotion, an experience. - Hermann Hesse

For every 6 crappy poems you read, you'll find one or two good ones. And that, believe me, is a very acceptable ratio of trash to treasure.
- Stephen King

(I guess I like that one b/c I write a lot of poetry... kind of nice to know that some of it doesn't suck that bad. Lol)

“I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.” Elizabeth Wurtzel

[carboncommunity]

"When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up, perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, "It is done. People did not like it here."

-Kurt Vonnegut

[Dionysos]

"How much of human life is lost in waiting?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Import]

'Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.' - H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

'And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.' - Albert Camus, The Plague

[-m-]

A few from Invisible Monsters, arguably the best Chuck P book ever written. For the younger posters, Chuck Palahniuk is the author of the book Fight Club was based on, titled Fight Club.

…No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Hysteria is impossible without an audience.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.

[Damnsammit]

Originally Posted by -m-

A few from Invisible Monsters, arguably the best Chuck P book ever written.

Better than Choke?

[elNastioBananaHando]

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[DjJuliaMarie]

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-Dr. Seuss

[CLAWFUL]

"Why do tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow?"
-Mark Twain

[TheHawk]

"I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent, mega rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and horde what can nourish a thousand souls."

- Kabir

[DjJuliaMarie]

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
-Sydney J. Harris

[hepkatmama]

"If nightclub promoters were to focus their energies on more important things, they could make amazing changes to the world."

New York Confidential, The Lowdown on Its Bright Life(1948) by Jack Lait with Lee Mortimer

[CLAWFUL]

“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” — Hunter S. Thompson

[DjJuliaMarie]

Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

[Hey Bubu]

"..this is one of the great questions you have to ask yourself when you really get down to the nitty-gritty about your own inmost core: Are you serious, or do you know deep within you that you are a put-on?"
-Allan Watts