Malachite's Favourite Quotes

Everybody has read or heard someone say something that was meaningful. Whether it was a famous philosopher with brilliant insight, a friend with a twisted sense of humour or even a poet with the gift of perfect expression of a feeling thought or just a beautiful image.. The following is a collection of some of my favourite quotes.. My most favourite being the first..

  • Perhaps it is so with everyone that he looks for weakness in the strong to find promise of strength in his weakness...If I were weak, they would not find strength but only excuses for their weakness.
    from The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck


  • Word are not Friends..
    from Antigone by Sophicles

  • You speak of my love like you've had experiences like mine before..
    'Uninvited' by Alanis Morissette

  • I thought; I understood - but understanding does not remove the fear. It increases it.
    from The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by John Steinbeck


  • A life well lived is to walk a razor's edge.
    I forgot

  • I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.
    Young Goodman Brown by Nataniel Hawthorne

  • If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil
    Socrates


  • None may escape times march.. or so they say..
    Karla of Record of Loddoss Wars

  • The chief delight of souls in heaven are to see those in hell, tortured eternally
    St. Thomas Aquinas


  • We are all polymorphously perverse..
    Freud?


  • The damsel said, "Most strong and lusty men cannot help themselves. Love reaches out and their reluctance disappears like smoke"
  • "Their strength then becomes their weakness..Their very manhood makes them helpless. Should I choose that if I have a choice"
  • "I think you do not love ladies - something perverts - "
  • "I knew you would. You will whisper that I am - not a man - because I have so far overcome man's chief weakness and perplexity."
    from The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by John Steinbeck


  • Fire and steel is what the gods used to make my heart.
    I forgot

  • To sigh for my lady's favour, yes. To yearn for her grace, again yes; to suffer when she is displeased, triply yes; but to burn, to desire, that is not knighthood.
    from The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by John Steinbeck


  • If you go in with fear, you will find things that scare you..
    I forgot

  • Conscience is the fear of being caught.
    Lucas Buck of American Gothic


  • Why was his hatred so great against [one] who had done him no harm? He was innocent of those passions of jealousy which cause a small man to destroy what others admire, nor had he so far in his life felt the self-loathing that makes a man revenge himself on a world he blames for his own inadequacies.
    from The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by John Steinbeck


  • The Nature of God is a circle, the centre of which is everywhere, and the circumference is nowhere.
    St. Augustine


  • That's sacreligious! You can't put Mountain Dew in a Coke bottle!
    Mom

  • God is dead and you and I have killed him.
    Nietzsche


  • I bit my tongue and stood in line with not much to believe in.
    'Not My Idea' by Garbage

  • I'll destroy the whole world..
    ..and what?.. be prince of a graveyard?
    from The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu

  • She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away.
    from Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut


  • The water boiled with blood, hot with gore
    from Beowulf

  • Is that a boy, mommy?
    a young customer


  • Over here, hon. This girl's line is open.
    an old customer


  • I'll never get over you getting over me
    Expose'


  • Every man that has ever lived holds tight to the belief that for him alone, the laws of probability are cancelled out by love.
    from The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck


  • Let him who is without sin cast the first stone..
    from The Bible; Jesus Christ

  • I drank in every word, thirsty for an affirmation of my faith.
    Walter Lynn


  • Beauty never lasts..
    from The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu

  • The Bible is a book to tell how to go to heaven, not a book to tell how the heavens go
    Gallileo


  • There is no reality other than that one which you felt; Reality is a feeling
    don Juan to Carlos Casteneda

  • In order for a problem to exist, people must feel that they can do something to change the situation.
    I don't know


  • There were those empty threats and hollow lies, and whenever you tried to hurt me, I'd just hurt you even worse and so much deeper..
    'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' by Celine Dion

  • As soon as the rush is over, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. I worked for it. I owe it to myself, and nobody is going to deprive me of it.
    I don't know

  • It was a slap in the face, how quickly I was replaced, and are you thinking of me when you fuck her?
    'You Oughtta Know' by Alanis Morissette

  • I hate what I have become to escape what I hated being..
    'Dope Hat' by Marilyn Manson

  • Let them take wind from the highest tower.
    I Forgot

  • Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken
    'What's Love Gotta Do With It?' by Tina Turner

  • We are doomed to fail, it is the magnificance of the attempt which makes it meaningful
    I don't know


  • My most seeming virtuous queen
    from Hamlet by William Shakespeare

  • Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallable and human creature they really are..
    from The Long Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson

  • This community means about as much to me as a festering bowl of dogsnot, and if the pee brain locals of this city took their combined IQ and multiplied it by a hundred, you might have enough intellegence left to tie your shoe, if you didn't drool all over yourself first.
    R.J. Fletcher in U.H.F.


  • Childhood is over the moment you know you're gonna die
    "my daddy" of The Crow

  • You deserve to be loved by someone who doesn't need to be convinced
    Jerry Springer

  • I may not agree with everything you may say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
    Voltaire

  • Those who know, do not speak - Those who speak, do not know
    Zen Buddhism Principle


  • I've been afraid of changing cause I built my life around you..
    'Landslide' by Fleetwood Mac

  • What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.
    from White Noise by Don DeLillo


  • And you can't fight the tears that ain't comin' or the moment of truth in your lies. When everything feels like a movie and you bleed just to know you're alive..
    'Iris' by The Goo Goo Dolls

  • Rather than love, than money, than fame.. Give me truth
    Walden by Henry David Thoreau

  • You reach an age when every moment of sleep is one less minute to do useful things.
    from White Noise by Don DeLillo


  • Victims.. Aren't we all?
    Eric Draven in The Crow

  • No culture has a monopoly on beauty or value.. Just as no religion has a monopoly on truth.
    Voltaire

  • If people had to take the consequences of their own actions, they would think twice
    from The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey


  • When you kill a man, you're a murderer.. Kill many, and you're a conquerer.. Kill them all, and you're a God
    'Captive Honour' by Megadeth


  • There is no difference between "White" and "Black" magic, except in the smug hypocrisy, guilt-ridden righteousness and self-deceit of the "White" magician himself.
    from The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey


  • In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
    from The Noble Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by John Steinbeck


  • God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
    Courage to change the things I can
    and Wisdom to always know the difference..
    -?-


    Feel free to send me any other neat quotes I might find interesting..


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