Panos > Panos's Quotes

“Attachment leads to suffering.”
― Buddha

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts;I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.”
― Marquis De Sade

“Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.”
― Marquis de Sade

“Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly.
As one long prepared, and graced with courage,
say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving.
Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say
it was a dream, your ears deceived you:
don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.”
― Constantine P. Cavafy/Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης

“And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...”
― Constantine P. Cavafy/Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης

“If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.”
― Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke

“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. The Korova Milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, and you may, O my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, things changing so skorry these days, and everybody very quick to forget, newspapers not being read much neither.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.

Particularly the live ones.”
― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!”
― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Προσπαθώ να βγώ απο το ψυχολογικό μου αδιέξοδο αλλα δεν μπορω να θυμηθώ απο που μπήκα...”
― Arkas

“Ξέρεις Ισοβίτη, για σένα όλος ο κόσμος είναι μια φυλακή ένω για μένα μια φυλακή είναι ολόκληρος ο κόσμος...

ΜΑ ΠΟΥ ΤΑ ΒΡΙΣΚΩ Ο ΠΟΥΣΤΗΣ!”
― Arkas

“Καιρός να αφήσουμε τους εγωισμούς και να κοιτάξουμε λίγο τον εαυτό μας!..”
― Arkas

“Μπορώ να έχω θέληση αλλα δεν θέλω!”
― Arkas

“Είμαι ελεύθερος να κάνω ό,τι θέλουν!”
― Arkas

“Το γέλιο είναι το προνόμιο που ο Θεός δώρισε στους ανθρώπους σαν παρήγορια για την ευφυϊα τους.”
― Marcel Pagnol

“Η ζωή είναι τόσο άθλια που δεν αξίζει τον κόπο να την εγκαταλείψεις...”
― Jacques Rigaut

“Άμα σε προδίνουν και οι φαντασιώσεις σου, τι να περιμένεις απο τη ζωή...”
― Arkas, Ο Κόκκορας του Αρκά

“Ω! έχει πολλή πέραση
ένα ψέμα με αλαφρύν όρκο
και ένα αστείο με σοβαρό φρύδι.”
― William Shakespeare

“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
― Neil Gaiman