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| A man who lives a lie will soon enough be consumed by it. ~ R.A. Salvatore "Sea of Swords"
Content is disillusioning to behold: what is there to be content about? ~ Virginia Woolf "diary" Cruelty, like every other vice, required no motive outside itself--it only required opportunity. ~ George Eliot "Scenes from a Clerical Life" Don't be too eager for my heaven sweet dear. Gates of pearl are as imprisoning as gates of iron. Mortal life is the thing. Into mortal things--blood feuds and incestuous affairs and deadly politics--even angels long to look. ~ J. Robert King "Lancelot du Lethe" Dreams are real. Especially when they are sacrificed. ~ J. Robert King "Lancelot du Lethe" Dying, Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. ~ Sylvia Plath "Lady Lazarus" Everybody lies. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Garibaldi" Everyone lies. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Sinclair" Everything is illusion. Concepts constructs of language, light, metaphor; nothing is real. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Wade" Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. ~ Mary Shelley "Frankenstein" Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them. ~ Louisa May Alcott "Jo's Boys" Flesh is transitory, flesh is a prison, flesh is�an instrument. Flesh can be replaced. And flesh does as it's told. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Morden" For frequent tears have run The colours from my life. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portuguese" From now on I shall Know that there is something wrong and false in this world into which we have been born. I am an ordinary man, but the love that filled me is not an ordinary love. When such love is not met by a love in return, then life is itself a deception. And it is best that men live at random, as best as they may. For justice...and honor...and love are just things we invent for a short time, as suits the moment. ~ Thornton Wilder "The Alcestiad" G'Quan wrote: There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of the flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 G'Kar" How short is human life! the very breath which frames my words accelerates my death. ~ Hanna More "King Hezekiah" I always grow poetic when I am lying to myself. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" I hate and love. And if you ask me why, I have no answer, but I discern, can feel, my senses rooted in eternal torture. ~ Catullus I just start to worry when things are going too well. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Sheridan" If I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? ~ Stephen Crane "The Open Boat" If I am the devil's child, I will then live from the devil. No law can be sacred to me but that of my own nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" in destruction, everyone is an adept. ~ Christopher Columbus In every parting there is an image of death. ~ George Eliot "Scenes from a Clerical Life" In many of our dwellings, the very light of our lives has gone out. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe "History of the Civil War" In the midst of life we are in the midst of death, a truer word was never said. ~ Thornton Wilder "The Skin of our Teeth" Intense love is akin to intense suffering. ~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "The Two Offers" It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~ Agnes Repplier It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction. ~ Michael Moorcock "Elric: Song of the Black Sword" Let them think I love them more than I do, Let them think I care, though I go alone. ~ Sara Teasdale "Dark of the Moon" Life, the permission to know death. ~ Djuna Barnes "Nightwood" Murder is the way of all things, the way of nature. Every living thing is a murderer. ~ Terry Goodkind "Wizard's First Rule" Nobody takes power. They're given power by the rest of us, because we are stupid or afraid or both. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 William Edgars" Nothing goes on forever. Not falls, not you, not I, not love, not life. Entropy consumes everything. We all hit bottom, sooner or later. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Lorien" Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: If you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ~ Gustave Flaubert One's mind is never simply one's own, even at birth and even less so as one lives, learns, loses, etc. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Compass Rose" Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. ~ Emily Dickinson Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Some must be sacrificed for all to be saved. First I took that as a revelation for the future. Now I see that it is as much about how we got here as about where we are going. I think that one sentence is the greatest burden I have ever known. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 G'Kar" The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted uncared for and deserted by everybody. ~ Mother Teresa The double grief of a lost bliss is to recall its happy hour in pain ~ Dante Alighieri The end of the world does not exist only in a few evil superhumans with destructive intent, but in the constantly replenishing stream of ordinary people with endless destructive potential. True to our evolutionary nature, each of us contains the makings of many characters, which--depending on our decisions--we can become at any point in time. Being a good person is not something someone is born as or even something he becomes. It's simply an accumulation of choices. ~ Kat Jahnigen "Thoughts on the Death of a Superhero The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is. ~ Mary Barnett Gilson "What's Past Is Prologue" their dread turns wish: they yearn for what they fear ~ Dante Alighieri There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you'll ever be. Then you accept it�or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Londo" There is only one misery, and that is ignorance--ignorance of what our lives are. That is misery and despair. ~ Thornton Wilder "The Alcestiad" There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well. ~ Thornton Wilder "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" There should a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" There's no future in loving people who are hurt. If you heal them, they don't need you anymore. If you don't heal them, they destroy you. ~ Sharon Shinn "Wrapt in Crystal" This was why I hated to be alone, basically; because in the night, I knew that if I died no one would mourn me, if I disappeared no one would really care; because if there was no one looking at me, shining their light on me, how could I even prove I existed at all? ~ Tim Pratt "Romanticore" To be great is to be misunderstood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Lanuguage of the Night" When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. ~ H. Allen Smith When there is good news we always ask if it's true, because it is difficult to believe. But when there is bad news we rarely inquire because it's so easy to believe. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Forell" You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 G'Kar" You know, the one thing in life that you can be sure about is that you are going to make mistakes. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Garibaldi" All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ~ Amelia E. Barr "All the Days of My Life" All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. ~ Yann Martel "Life of Pi" Always plant a lie inside a truth; makes it easier to swallow. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - Sheridan" But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable. ~ Ann Brasheres Day, in melting purple dying. ~ Maria Gown Brooks Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. ~ Sigmund Freud For others to approve me is easy; for me to approve myslef is hard. ~ Yuan-Cheng I used to think I was an interesting person, but I must tell you how sobering a thought it is to realize your life's story fills about thirty-five pages and you have, actually, not much to say. ~ Roseanne Arnold "Roseanne" I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what? An old woman's greed. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Poems of Passion" Sarcasm is not becoming. Honesty is oft painful. ~ R.A. Salvatore "Sea of Swords" What do you despise? By this are you truly known. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune - Princess Irulan" Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because they can. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 - G'Kar" |
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