Quotes - Neil (eternalhost) Showing 1-30 of 145

#1

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: s-e-hinton, the-outsiders

128 likes

#2

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

284 likes

#3

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

2670 likes

#4

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
― Mary W. Shelley

tags: consolation, mood, solitude

454 likes

#5

“Actually, you said Love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s
terrifying. No one
will ever want to sleep with you.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

tags: love

405 likes

#6

“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

527 likes

#7

“I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams

41 likes

#8

“All I want is to finally take off my cowboy hat and show you my jeweled horns. If we slow dance I will ask you not to tug on them but secretly I will want that very much.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

11 likes

#9

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

tags: death, eternity

1237 likes

#10

“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: deserve, nobody, nothing, owe, spring, virginia-woolf

252 likes

#11

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

672 likes

#12

“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: gay-men, lgbt, oscar-wilde

379 likes

#13

“How can I ask anyone to love me
when all I do is beg to be left alone?”
― Fiona Apple

tags: love, the-idler-wheel

49 likes

#14

“I press my hands against my chest, wishing I could somehow be even closer to him. I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse

51 likes

#15

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

543 likes

#16

“HIPPOLYTUS: No one burns me, no one fucking touches me. So don’t try.”
― Sarah Kane, Phaedra's Love

tags: apathy, asocial, cold, loveless

9 likes

#17

“What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

tags: fear, intimacy

45 likes

#18

“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
― Anne Sexton

597 likes

#19

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

874 likes

#20

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

tags: books, wine

1388 likes

#21

“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

tags: beginnings, initiation, inspirational

376 likes

#22

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: awesomeness, um

1170 likes

#23

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9009 likes

#24

“If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: classic, fiction, gothic, vampires

235 likes

#25

“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

317 likes

#27

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

6618 likes

#27

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley

1296 likes

#28

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: love, moon, stars, sun

2401 likes

#29