Quotes - Caty McCarthy (c8linnn) (Rio Rancho, NM) Showing 1-30 of 688

#1

“If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

tags: hannibal-lecter

#2

“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
― Clive Barker

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#3

“The madman is a dreamer awake”
― S. Freud

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#4

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb

1165 likes

#5

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

3476 likes

#6

“The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.”
― Charles Simic

28 likes

#7

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul

7432 likes

#8

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: love

1562 likes

#9

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

9523 likes

#10

“Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur."

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
― Horace

tags: ancient-rome, classics, horace, latin

254 likes

#11

“I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

391 likes

#12

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

12900 likes

#13

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

1468 likes

#14

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: confidences, secrets, sharing-secrets

3941 likes

#15

“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

2807 likes

#16

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

2897 likes

#17

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

3652 likes

#18

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: life, live, sleep, tomorrow

1552 likes

#19

“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: love, writing

749 likes

#20

“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: death, hell, profound

902 likes

#21

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45295 likes

#22

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

6046 likes

#23

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

3502 likes

#24

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

3230 likes

#25

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

3440 likes

#26

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

1741 likes

#27

“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: afterlife, death-and-dying, hamlet, shakespeare

2073 likes

#28

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: weird-isn-t-it

865 likes

#29

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

872 likes

#30

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

1298 likes