Porsha > Porsha's Quotes

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Other?”
― Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold, Craft of the Untamed: An inspired vision of Traditional Witchcraft

“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
― Nikolas Schreck

“I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.”
― Michael Romkey

“He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented.”
― Tony Vigorito

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
― Georges Bataille

“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.”
― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Memory, prophecy, and fantasy—
The past, the future, and
The dreaming moment between—
Are all in one country,
Living one immortal day.

To know that is Wisdom.

To use it is the Art.”
― Clive Barker, Everville

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― Alexander Pope, Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

“I, who am I among living creatures?”
― Enheduanna

“Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“I will drink life to the lees.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“That day I oft remember, when from sleep
I first awaked, and found myself reposed,
Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where
And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. (”
― Tansy Rayner Roberts, 50 Roman Mistresses

“Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

“Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.”
― Carol P. Christ

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“Writing is, among things, the place where we can help ourselves cope with the dark parts of our living”
― John Aubrey

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
― Angela Carter

“It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw, and when she drew she was naturally always alone.”
― Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver

“My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.”
― Tove Jansson, Travelling Light

“But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly so. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavour of bitterness, the flaw in their perfection, the canker in the damask, the worm at the root, the fear of loss, or of satiety, the fearful risks involved in their very existence, which tang their sweetness, and mind us of their mortality and of our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect.”
― Rose Macaulay, Personal Pleasures

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien