Quotes - Pouya (Isf, 26, Iran) Showing 1-30 of 57

#1

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

tags: music, power-of-music

1280 likes

#2

“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits

697 likes

#3

“We are all just monkeys with money and guns.”
― tom waits

69 likes

#4

“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time”
― Thom Yorke

152 likes

#5

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: life, planets, space-travel

1508 likes

#6

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

tags: failure, perseverance

1889 likes

#7

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears

928 likes

#8

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

1850 likes

#9

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy

720 likes

#10

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: existentialism, failure, inspirational

812 likes

#11

“My mistakes are my life.”
― Samuel Beckett

413 likes

#12

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

tags: beckett, great-first-lines, murphy, opening-lines

545 likes

#13

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
― Samuel Beckett

595 likes

#14

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29735 likes

#15

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: condemnation, criticism, song-lyrics

1386 likes

#16

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

7827 likes

#17

“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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― Jacques Lacan

338 likes

#18

“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954

174 likes

#19

“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

71 likes

#20

“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”
― Jacques Lacan

117 likes

#21

“I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.”
― Jacques Lacan

53 likes

#22

“There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.”
― Thom Yorke

tags: creep

53 likes

#23

“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
― Thom Yorke

54 likes

#24

“It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

tags: friendship

48 likes

#25

“He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

54 likes

#26

“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

34 likes

#27

“And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.”
― Maynard James Keenan

tags: lyrical-writing, maynard-james-keenan, mjk, writing

11 likes

#28

“Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety? How can this mean anything to me. If I really don't feel anything at all?”
― Maynard James Keenan

9 likes

#29

“I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.”
― Maynard James Keenan

5 likes

#30

“If God is our father you thought, than Satan must be our cousin.”
― Maynard James Keenan

7 likes

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