Raven > Raven's Quotes

“There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am myself. That is not enough.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.”
― David McGee

“I suffer from chronic nostalgia. Looking back makes me dizzy, queasy, and I yearn for it, ache for it. I want it back; maybe the homesickness will leave then.

But it’s not the way I remember it. I long for a past that I didn’t have, for the same experiences with different emotions, without the pain, without the ambivalence, without the fear. My heart remembers two different lives and I long for the one I can only see now, in retrospect.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past.”
― Sarah Domet, The Guineveres

“Nostalgia is a narcotic.”
― Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls

“And she's striken with sudden nostalgia for the life she's been so eager to pack away, she wishes there was some way of being everything at once–grown and sure and clever, young and protected and new.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Butterfly

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers

“If I get my hands on you, really, honestly get my hands on you, I don't know if I'll be able to stop.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.”
― Georges Bataille

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.”
― Mark Mirabello, The Cannibal Within

“Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!”
― Maurice Sendak

“Cannibals need love too.”
― Kresley Cole, Endless Knight

“We cannibals must help these Christians.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.”
― Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts

“It is our custom
to consume
the person we love.
Taboo flesh: swollen
genitalia nipples
the scrotum the vulva
the soles of the feet
the palm of the hand
heart and liver taste best.
Cannibalism is blessed.

I'll wear your jawbone
round my neck
listen to your vertebrae
bone tapping bone in my wrists.
I'll string your fingers round my waist -
what a rigorous embrace.
Over my heart I'll wear
a brooch with a lock of hair.
Nights I'll sleep cradling
your skull sharpening
my teeth on your toothless grin.

Sundays there's Mass and communion
and I'll put your relics to rest.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

“My mother calls it the pretty hate.
It comes on you like a fever when someone you love up and leaves you with nothing but silence. You turn the hate on yourself as you cannibalize your heart while the rage burns through you and polishes your desperation into a diamond. It is one of the cruelest things in the world to do to another human being.
Don’t do that.”
― Ava Ayers, Pretty Hate

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven