Rob > Rob's Quotes

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
― Lord Byron

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“in black ink my love may still shine bright.”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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

“Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.”
― William Shakespeare, The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth