Jill > Jill's Quotes

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

“On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.”
― hunter s. thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”
― Jim Morrison

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
― Jim Morrison

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”
― Jim Morrison

“I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...”
― Jim Morrison

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”
― Jim Morrison

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.”
― Alyson Noel, Saving Zoë

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
― William Faulkner

“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“There is no was.”
― William Faulkner

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
― William Faulkner

“every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain”
― Bob Dylan

“i've forgotten more than you'll ever know”
― bob dylan

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
― Bob Dylan

“the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on”
― bob dylan

“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”
― Bob Dylan

“Some times I think this whole world
Is one big prison yeard
Some of us are prisoners
The rest of us are guards”
― Bob Dylan

“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it”
― Bob Dylan

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.”
― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
― Poppy Z.Brite