Tariel > Tariel's Quotes

“Despair has its own calms.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Take me away from all this Death.”
― Stoker Bram

“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The parry is wrong." - Drizzt Do'Urden”
― R.A. Salvatore

“Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan

“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

“So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Fucking was how babies were made.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.”
― Tad Williams

“We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.”
― Tad Williams

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Death reminds us that we are nothing.”
― Stephen J. Rivele

“The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!”
― Evelyn Waugh

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Cake or death?”
― Eddie Izzard

“What have you been reading, The Gospel according to St. Bastard?!”
― Eddie Izzard

“I am an evil Giraffe.”
― Eddie Izzard

“We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?”
― Eddie Izzard

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones