quotes
You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see,
but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel.
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war.
No fort will keep it out, no ship can outrun it.
-Sophocles
Memory believes before Knowing remembers. Believes longer
than recollects, longer than Knowing even wonders.
-William Faulkner
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some
strangeness in the proportion.
-Frances Bacon "Essays of Beauty"
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hand
And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," he answered; "But I like it
Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart."
-Stephen Crane "The Heart"
Life without love is no life at all.
-Ever After
It can't rain all the time.
-Eric Draven "The Crow"
There is nothing permanent except change.
-Heraclitis
They always say time changes things, but you actually
have to change them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to the endless night.
-Jim Morrison
Creative minds have always been known to survive any
kind of bad training.
-Anna Freud
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams (Creator of "Dilbert")
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and
see their beauty.
-Louisa May Alcott
Fate is written on running water, fortune rides on storms.
-16th century Greek ballad
What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness.
-Thomas Baily Aldrich "A Shadow of the Night"
Sometimes there is no relationship more desirable, no
person more irresistable, than the one you can't have.
Loving someone can be the most beautiful thing.
Remembering loving someone can be the most destructive.
You flicker and you're beautiful, you glow inside
my head, you hold me hypnotized, I'm mesmerized,
your flames, the flames that kiss me dead.
-The Cure
A loss is a loss, no matter how much one needs to lose it.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events;
shallow minds discuss people.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
I remember that time you told me lovers touching souls,
well surely you touched mine 'cause part of you
pours out of me in these lines from time to time.
