Dragon Quotations
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it. --Elizabeth Wurtzel
Some people realize this. That happiness isn’t an emotion but more of a state. Happiness is a drug that causes a high.
In those days I seemed to have had two muses: the essential, hysterical, genuine one, who tortured me with elusive snatches of imagery and wrung her hands over my inability to appropriate the magic and madness offered me; and her apprentice, her palette girl and stand-in, a little logician, who stuffed the torn gaps left by her mistress with explanatory or meter-mending fillers which became more and more numerous the further I moved away from the initial, evanescent, savage perfection. --Vladimir Nabokov
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he, who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution. But this apparent violation is preferable to the monstrous habits condoned by etiquette and estheticism. --MAN RAY
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist. --Oscar Wilde
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. --Paul Gauguin
Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing. --Sally Kempton
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love. --Soren Kierkegaard
Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits. --Susan Sontag
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. --E. M. Cioran
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. --John Keats
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. --Judith Guest
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. --Oscar Wilde
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. --Henry David Thoreau
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. --James Russell Lowell
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. --Leon Trotsky
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. --Agatha Christie
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone. --Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. --Aristotle
Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this? --Brady
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. --Don Marquis
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. --E. M. Cioran
Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last. --Edgar Allan Poe
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. --Eric Hoffer
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist. --Erich Fromm
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. --Francis Quarles
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. --George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. --George Bernard Shaw
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. --George Eliot
Anger cannot be dishonest. --George R. Bach
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. --Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. --Henry David Thoreau
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. --Jean Baudrillard
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. --Jean Cocteau
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. --John Stuart Mill
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. --Michel Foucault
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. --Pietro Mascagni
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. --R. D. Laing
Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. --Samuel Johnson
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. --Samuel Johnson
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind over-tasked. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. --Oscar Levant
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. --T. S. Eliot
It hurts to admit when you make mistakes, but when they're big enough, the pain only lasts a second.
Analytic therapy eventually collapses into an arrogance-bound (and unfortunately stable) binary orbit, with the analyst's position of superior objectivity revolving around the patient's position that his or her problem is special, unique, and deserving of such attention, thereby replicating scenarios of early life (and analytic training) in which the analyst paid for parental approval and attention by a surrender of the mind.
--Craig Smart and George Atwood
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely . --Albert Einstein
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. --Elizabeth Bowen
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely ? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. --Judy Garland
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. --Lou Dorfsman
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. --Robert Nathan
May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun. --Source Unknown
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. --Voltaire
One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. --Boiste
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. --Cyril Connolly
I know these people. I know them, I like to think, well. I have no comments on myself, but I think it fits. This has quit being my project, my therapy. This is now my fame. I’ve lost my path, and I don’t think I can go back.
The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. --Elizabeth Bishop
If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. --George Borrow
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. --Cesare Pavese
The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide. --Dean Charles R. Brown
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. --E. M. Cioran
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. --Emile Durkheim
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. --Ezra Pound
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. --Fran Lebowitz
This was a revelation! Here is the person who has orchestrated my life! Henceforth, I know for certain that all of my poetry is terrible. All of it is fake and useless. All of it, until that last line of prose, that last stanza of loneliness, hatred, and confusion! Al until I uncap the pen and write my final line!
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. --Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. --Vaclav Havel
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. --Arthur Rimbaud
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
Plato was a bore.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Great intellects are skeptical.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
I am as I am. The world is as it is. my contentment has very little to do with it.
We live in the shadowlands. The sun is always shining somewhere else.-Both from The Shadowlands, the story of C.S. Lewis(Wrote The Chronicles of Narnia? The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? Come on people. Dang y'all are dumb.)
It's hard to get myself started on these things again. I'm working on some more though. Musshier than any of the others have been. Probably make me sound gay to a lot of people. Fuck them. I found this recently, so I'm just adding it by itself. I don't have a source, and I don't believe it's a song, so it's most likely a personal writing. If whoever wrote it sees this, email me and let me know it was you so that I may properly give you credit.
When your looking at the stars,
In the eternal blue...
Remember that each star out there,
Is a reason why I love you....
And when you think you're alone,
And when no one is there at all...
I'll be right in front of you,
To catch you when you fall...
Emotions Of The Away Part One
Emotions Of The Away Part Two
Emotions Of The Away Part Three
Emotions Of The Away Part Four
Emotions Of The Away Part Five
I saw this at the Bodacious BBQ in Tyler, and I had to stop and write it down. It made too much sense to pass by. And don't ask who B is, I don't know, but that is all it said for the author.
When I look at others
Reflected back I see an image that is paradoxical.
I am a walking contradiction.
When I tell you what I am
Are you in fact hearing me tell what I wish I were?
And when I tell you the tiresome details of how I got to where I am,
Am I apologizing for being here
Rather than somewhere further along the path.
If I could but accept where I am as right for me
And where you are as right for you
And Avoid any comparisons
-B.
Damn that's good.
Emotions Of The Away
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley
It can certainly seem like it. Of course, I have found that the Hell we are in is not the Hell in which we bind ourselves, or at least the one I bind myself in. This is another episode of the series that not all of you will get. Some of the them will be so obscure and fit only to the time they were written that I myself won’t get them later, though at the time I did.
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr
I like this because it is another of the series that describes me. I can be this way, knowing myself that I am too far-gone for salvation, and then again wondering if I am gone enough.
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” -Steven Hawking
In short, I think, people can be cruel, and destroy the very things they have created, in turn creating again something elses destruction. Not all of you will understand.
“If a universe could create itself, it would embody the powers of a creator, and we should be forced to conclude that the universe itself is a God.”--George Davis.
I get it, and it’s one of those spots of insight that hits the right spot and makes you feel unworthy of the very life imbued into your bones. It’s hard to live when you know you’re not worth it, or that you’re not doing it right.
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."--Sir Isaac Newton
I think this needs no explanation, as those of you who are old acquaintances with my project will already know my response, and if you’re new, than just think about it, and read some more. It’ll make more sense as you go (or maybe not, as things turn out)
To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
“You can be surrounded by people, and still be completely alone."
This is one that is part of a section I shall organize, as it needs no further explanation. Kindred spirits will understand. For anyone else, there is no need.
“Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.”
HA! And some of you thought I was playing around?
“We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
ANOTHER HA! Some of you asked why I get such good grades.
“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend."
This goes into the section I mentioned earlier.
“The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.”
Needs no explanation. Again.
“Nothing is fool proof to a sufficiently talented fool.”
HEY NICK!!!!!
"A time of darkness, despair, disillusion--so black only as the inferno of the human mind can be--symbolic death, and numb shock--then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration"
Heeheehee.....I get it. I also think that a time of insecurity should go somewhere in there, but then the whole theme would be kind of off.
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."
I truly wish that I knew some of those question/answer pairs, but alas, once the question has been destroyed, then where exactly can the answer fit?
"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
Genius does not lie on the border between genius and insanity, it IS genius and insanity, for the one cannot exist without the other. They are almost symbiotic.
"Majority doesn't make it right, just louder."
For the ways the human mind and government work, this is one of the most treasonous things to say. Don’t turn me in, or I’ll have to quit my little “project”.
“Not even death is feared by someone who has lived wisely”
I like to think that I do not fear death, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I am wise. I will never really know until it is my time to die. I certainly hope I choose that time. I might have forgotten to turn off the dryer.
Emotions of the Away Part Two
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech”
I speak so often because I am yet to find a time when my silence would have held more power than my words. I hope that someday, I will be able to determine an entire choice by my power over nothing. (Hey look! One of my own quotes in here that people won’t get! I feel so proud!)
“We're all afraid of the darkness inside ourselves"
And inside that darkness is sometimes the only warmth around. But beware: the darkness holds an evil warmth that deteriorates the soul, and is only around for such reasons.
“Only the dead have seen the end of war”
For life itself is the battlefield, and words and actions are the weapons.
"For everyone who must talk about me behind my back, thanks for making me the center of your world"
Hope you choke, you conniving little whelps!
"Reality is for those who lack imagination"
And reality bites! A question I have for those of you out there in my profile, if I wanted reality, then why would I be watching television, much less with someone elses reality in front of my eyes?
"We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.
HAHAHA!!!I LOVE THIS ONE!!! It fits to some of my own theories and thoughts. AND I BET YOU DON”T GET IT!!!(Not all of you, there is a spot in here for the extraordinary few)
“Be normal and the crowd will accept you. Be deranged and they will make you their leader.”
Another one of those where the people asked, and using the words of another person, I answered.
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
Men hate, and loathe, and tear apart each other. I’m so glad I am not a normal person.
“The meaning of life is to find the one moment when you feel infinite, because that is the one thing that will give meaning to your life. You spend your entire life searching for that moment, and you don't discover which moment it was, until you are about to die, because if you knew any earlier, it wouldn't be as special.”
I am yet to find the meaning in my life, mostly because of how short it is, and the fact that you don’t find out until you die. I, like most people I’m sure, would like to find that moment, and let it direct the rest of my life, so that I could live happily and wholly. Alas, happiness seems just beyond my reach. So, I have decided to not feel emotions of that kind anymore. Some of you laugh, but it is possible. You simply stop, and you act. It takes a great actor to seem to care, and really not. Thusly, I shall attempt it. I think that I can do it for a short time, but then I will be fooled into it again. I shall have more resolve than the average person, hoping to avoid this. I have acted for a long time, to put things into perspective for my occasional reader, about almost everything. About the people I like (they’d never know if I didn’t tell them), the appreciation of the things I do in everyday life (yeah, right), and the fact that I like being the outcast (I bet THAT one was hard to guess).
EINSTEIN
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." -- Albert Einstein
The people whom I know have acted this way and are unaware. Not all, of course (can’t please everyone all the time), but there are some who have a great talent, of sorts, and use it only for the best use of the time. Use it for the best use of ALL times.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein
This is perhaps the first that I shall explain, partly because I myself had to think about it. Basically, it means that the universe goes on forever, and that people are infinitely stupid, and that he’s not entirely sure about the universe part.
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." --Albert Einstein
I do not think myself to be better than anyone. People label me so because they are unaware of my mentality. Very well, they can have their illusions. But I go on, trying to alter my own vision of things, and for those of you who think I am self-pitying and trying to make myself seem strong than I really am, I believe I addressed your problem earlier in this statement (Try the first 3 sentences).
Emotions of the Away Part Three
NIETZSCHE
“Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.”
“No one now dies of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
This is another one of those emotions right now/quotes/away messages. Think about it. If you don't get it, then you have never been depressed enough.
“Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads. “
“Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
Another of my set that I think I shall call “The Duh Section” (also the Nietzsche section). This is the general consensus for a lot of people, and I think it is good to voice all opinions that seem to be unvoiced. Of course, some seem to be less voiced than others. I prefer to voice my own voice, as if anyone else isn’t.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.-Oscar Wilde
I believe Bruce Lee, the famous martial artist, had a similar belief. I myself agree. Lee thought that there was a “system” to learning his art, and after many years and many readings on philosophy and lots of thought, he decided that the “system” he had searched for had been non-existent. People are their own system in everything that they do. One person does things one way, and no one else can do the same. Thusly, trying to teach ANYTHING is nothing more than a waste of time.
"Which is it, is man one of God's Blunders, or god one of Man's?"- F. Nietzsche
First thought by someone when they read this: Atheist. No, but you do have to consider the possibility that the things we cannot explain must have an answer, why not an all powerful being? Makes sense, just like it did to the ancient Egyptians.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter F. Drucker
Lose yourself in the words you read. They tend to have more meaning that way.
There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. -H. L. Mencken
I WISH!!!!!
No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees. -Carole Borges
Much like the lights that float through the forests, leading people to get lost in a series of interconnected nothings.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. -Dante
This man has obviously had a few rough turns in his life. I agree totally. I also think that sometimes recollection is more trouble than it’s worth.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves. -Eric Hoffer
GENIUS!!!
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself....If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight. -Leonardo da Vinci
And this is why, sometime, I wish to be by myself and utilise my own thoughts to use them later. Don’t trouble me again.
Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to be-friend him. He thus gets filled with emptiness and a non-existent sense of self-worth. -Mark R. J. Lavoie
I have said many times before that I felt alone. And the reason for this is that I have felt as if the people who “befriended” me (and I use the term loosely) are not what I need. Thus, this quote.
Our language has widely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. -Paul Tillich
Which do you choose? It is a choice, you know. But one is easier than the other, and once the choice has been made, it is hard to change it. Much like time, it only goes one way.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. -Stephen King, The Green Mile
I like this because it embodies the “You can never, ever win” type spirit. And yes, sometimes, this is how I feel, because, well, you can’t ever win! Not to say stop trying. Some of us have, and some of us have actually tried before.
Emotions of the Away Part Four
You can never lose what you never had. -Dican
So why ask for something to lose?
Before the beginning of great brilliance and beauty there first must be a period of complete chaos. --I-Ching
This fits to my project, and I have come to a new realization whilst I have been doing this. I am a calmer person, and I attribute it to this. I shall be almost the same when you see me next, but on the inside I will be more different from my previous self as I have ever been (in this case, not been)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. -Lyall Watson
And each thing in this lifetime with this mind would be proportionate to the things in another with smaller minds. It all balances out.
Technically, noting exists, and everything does not. -Max Levin
GET IT?!?!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Ghandi
The thoughts of this man shall be with me for the remainder of my days. He has embodied the thoughts of so many troubled youth, including myself, and if only they would learn to accept their own boundaries, then they could be so much happier. Of course then you have to consider the aspects of remembering your mortal, and can be stopped. I wonder which is better?
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. -Voltaire
And people aske me why I tell them the meanings of words or little snippits of the things I know.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. -Voltaire
BOY BANDS!!!!
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. -Dostoyevsky
And some of us, and I’m not saying it’s me, using “us” as a race of people, never quit taking those steps.
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them. -Edgar Allen Poe
If only they could last longer. (perhaps this is why teens sleep so much)
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. -Johann von Goethe
And sometmes, I feel as if I’m the headmaster.
"...why I'm so sympathetic to the monsters. The answer is simple. Because I am one." -Laurell K. Hamilton
I bet that some of you who have read this think I’m just playing around with something, trying to rouse up sympathy or something. But this quote seems to embody a majority of my thoughts and feelings. So, I put it on the end of the page for now, and will until I find something that does better. Even then, it will be second from the end.
Emotions of the Away Part Five
...Behind every dark cloud [is] another dark cloud. -Eric Marcus
The “ism” one chooses for their life, be it optimism or pessimism, stays with them until they die. I do not think that a person who believes the best of things and always thinks that people can change for the better can ever really see the truth, at least as the pessimists see it. They know people never change and that life is going to kill you, eventually. Of course, there are also branches of the “ism”, be it where you improve your life as it is the only one you get(but only in a few beliefs), or that you destroy it because it is the only one you get, or you destroy others because it is the only one you get, and so on. Each of these(save for maybe the last one) is not unique to one or the other. They are shared between the two, but the motives are different. (I was hoping to avoid this, but couldn’t. This monologue turned into one of those “it’s your choice” things. Man do I hate those...)
...I’ve been sorely disappointed over the years when looking for just the right kind of inspiration at my local bookstore. I always hope for the best, but inevitably I leave empty-handed. And no wonder. The shelves groan under the weight of books filled with sunny, soupy, stories. Affirmation books. Self-actualization books. Daily meditation books. Happy, happy, happy.-Eric Marcus
Just a little something to describe near my entire project.
That which does not kill me only serves to make me suffer.-Brad Schreiber
This one makes more sense. Makes me stronger? Only if you’re a glutton for punishment. How long does the rat push the wrong button before it figures out that the other one doesn’t hurt it? Life is like this. You do it ‘til it hurts, and then you die. Life, love, and anything to do with actual thinking, they are all games of death, and you never win.
Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?-Ashleigh Brilliant
Of course I can’t honestly say I follow this one. I have a few cuts on myself that weren’t accidents. Sometimes the torturing life does to you isn’t visible enough. You need to remind yourself when you see yourself in the mirror never to screw up the same again. Sure, there are tears, which dry in time, and wounds of the heart which never heal and are never seen, but the blood of your body that leaves a mark not only for yourself, but for anyone who wants to know exactly what it is to die on the inside.
No good deed goes unpunished.-Clare Boothe Luce
Some people you can help, in honesty and charity, and they think nothing of it. I believe there is another quote here somewhere, by Einstein, which shows the difference between a dog and a man. The dog doesn’t bite after you feed it.
He who expects much can expect little.-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Know that you will fail. Know that you will end up with nothing. Always expect not to get any, that way if you don’t, you’re not disappointed, and if you do, then you’re pleasantly suprised.
We’re all in this alone.-Lily Tomlin
No matter how many times people say to you that they are “there” for you, only a few of them mean it. Know whom you can trust. Know whom you cannot. And don’t say anything anyway.
Life isn’t one damn thing after another. It’s the same damn thing again and again.-Edna St. Vincent Millay
Your life has a theme, I like to believe. You’re branded, from birth, to have a kind of trend no matter what you do. Some people are always pretty. Some people are clumsy. Some people always win. Most people always lose. I am one of the true losers. There aren’t many of us left. Some of us, over time and after much fooling around with what they are have chosen to try to change their lives into something better, something that can make the world better and that they know they are wonderful people.
That’s a bunch of crap.
Living is a sickness from which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.-Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort
Palliative means it’s like a sedative, or temporary relief. There is another here on this type of subject. It’s actually two pieces, both sides of the suicide coin, if you will. Read it. Understand it. Heck, memorize it. But if ever you are “stuck” with a friend who wants to kill themselves, or you yourself want to die, it makes sense.
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.-Frank Zappa
I’ve told people before that I would rather be the world’s biggest idiot than know as much as I do. I understand how people think, and I understand reality(to a certain extent and belief in that state of mind), and I know almost exactly why life is hell. It is simply because we are alive. And these are frightening thoughts. To know this much about the world around you, and to know even more about yourself that you would not want to even know, why you feel and hate and loathe and believe when everything in your mind and your heart screams at you to give up, and you can’t find the courage to do it.....It’s scary.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everything.-Quentin Crisp
Read that last giant paragraph that I wrote, and think about it.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.-Bertrand Russel
I remain by my belief that people are the best toys, and that the majority of them are about as knowledgeable as a blind man with a Rubik’s cube.
All I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can’t be much worse. -Mark Twain
We are all the scum of the earth. You, me, your Aunt Sally, we’re all a waste of natural energy. And daily, we prove it to each other.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. -Oscar Wilde
This man was hated when he was alive. This man was a genius. He would know. And the nerds and the geeks and the smart ones never are accepted the way they want to be. The compassionate are left alone, the ones around them never knowing how much they can truly care, the romantics are never given the chance to be romantic, the story tellers are never given a chance to isolate the world of pain in which we dwell for others to have a modicum of relief. To be accepted like this one has to be mean, and un-intelligent, and always looking for their next victim. We are only popular to the ones who would rather not have popularity.
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. -Joe Ancts
And then some people you don’t have to know very well to know they are not normal. Most of my friends, for example...
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. -Henry Miller
He’s saying that we all are murderers under our skins, killing each other softly and slowly, rather than brothers under whichever form of God you believe in, helping and caring.
This is taken from a book, and the scene is that one very powerful wizard is trying to forget the pain of his past. He was driven from his homeland to a mountain, and the held captive in the heart of that mountain while the man who drew him there, more powerful at the time, ravaged his mind and stole from him who he was. Then he marched across an entire world to find the wizard who did it to him, and the harpist who played for the eternity he was captive. Har is the king of part of the realm. Morgan starts the scene, then it switches to an older and wiser wizard in the second paragraph.
"Simple". He remembered Har's plea and breathed soundlessly until the ache and snarl of the words in his chest loosened. He wrapped the fish in wet leaves, pushed the stone into the fire. "Nothing is simple."
The wizard’s fingers traced the curve of a blade of grass to its tip. "Some things are. Night. Fire. A blade of grass. If you place your hand in a flame and think of your pain, you will burn yourself. But if you think only of the flame, or the night, without remembering... it becomes very simple."
The Think About It Section-The section that needs no explanation.
Ninety Percent of life is miserable-if you’re lucky. -Eric Marcus
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin
One day I sat thinking almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: “Cheer up, things could get worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -James Hagerty
It’s always darkest before it goes pitch black. -Connie Winkler
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. -Latin Proverb
We die before we have learned to live. -Stephen Winston
Do not trust the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. -Oliver Cromwell
It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. -H. L. Mencken
Only the mediocre are always at their best. -Jean Giraudoux
The Deep Stuff Section-No really, this is some pretty heavy stuff. It took me a few seconds to get some of these.
What we remain most unconscious of is not something that lives buried deep inside, but quite simply, the World. -Barry Magid
We are fully aware of what is inside us, whether or not we recognize and acknowledge it. What most of us do not see is what is anything but ourselves. Very selfish, the human race is. We can’t see what is around us, and won’t see what is within us.
Reality is so continuous and pervasive, so solid, impenetrable, inscrutable, so real, that it is virtually impossible for the mind to grasp the simple fact that what we call REALITY is an illusion, a construct, a schema devised by the mind to explain the phenomenon and mystery of life. -Floyd Arnold
We don’t get ourselves, or why we exist, or even that what we perceive as solid could just be an astral thing. We may not be. Either way, we don’t understand it. If you disbelieve, then ask yourself why it is mankind is still asking for the meaning of life.
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. Most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think. -Sigmund Freud
We are cosmic debris on yet another rock. Like germs, we infest and infect our Earth. We are blind and greedy and weak. And I think it’s sad.
a. In a life constituted entirely by lies, the only authentic action possible is suicide.
b. In a life constituted entirely by lies, the ultimate act of compliance is suicide.
George Atwood
Both sides of the coin here, people. Some of you wonder why. Think on this and then wonder no more.
One result of psychoanalysis is that problems do not disappear from, but rather into our lives. -Barry Magid
We absorb them, slowly, steadily. We become more of them than we are ourselves, and lose our identity to what was originally causing us to lose our minds.
Schools of psychotherapy that view psychological dilemmas as ultimately composed of pathogenic "narratives" over which the patient should acknowledge his or her "authorship" or agency paradoxically encourage a disavowal and intellectualization of these dilemmas - for in viewing one's life only as an aesthetic object, a kind of novel to be "reauthored" or otherwise manipulated, one ceases to feel it as a lived reality. -Kyle Arnold
“This life is more than just a read-through”. Well, sometimes, but it is without the manipulation of the literal sense of our past selves. We cannot alter the type of history and time that has been set upon us in the reality of everyone else’s minds. We may only change what we know and comprehend within ourselves as our own time and history. To do so would, paradoxically, destroy who we are, thus creating an endless loop of un-edited change.
[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property. -Harry Stack Sullivan, 1950
This is trying to say that each of us thinks we are our own property, and can change ourselves whenever we want to. Not so. If we are in contact or ever have been in contact with anyone or anything than we are just as much a property of them as they are of us.
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