"Two roads diverged in a wood and I--I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference."

(Oh, and I want to say that, just because I have a quote up here, doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what that person is saying; it simply means I consider the quote either something to think about, or just eloquently stated.)

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest-- but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
-JFK

"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."
-Nietzsche

"Sleeping, turning in turn like planets
rotating in their midnight meadow:
a touch is enough to let us know
we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep. . ."
-Adrienne Rich

". . . for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--so like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
-Albert Camus, the stranger

"My life’s so common it disappears,
and sometimes even music
cannot substitute for tears"
-Paul Simon, The Cool, Cool River

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the little prince

. . . In our sleep, pain, which we cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of god. . . "
-the name escapes me at the moment

"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
-Karl Marx/Stalin

"Nothing is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."
-William Shakespeare

"Life's not a paragraph and death i think is no
parenthesis."
-e.e.cummings

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us . . . We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A books must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
-Franz Kafka

"My fear . . . is my substance, and probably the best part of me."
-Franz Kafka

"But when it comes to my death let it be slow, let it be pantomime, this last peep show . . . "
-Anne Sexton

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