| clearly this site has been abandoned; this is the last post, where I exhaust my quote stash. I will leave it up as a means of keeping all of the quotes i've collected over the year(s) together and accessible to me and all of you. There are most certainly doubles, as I kept a file just for quotes that I posted and liked. Anyway. Thanks for reading.
Meaghan
What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
-Jack Kerouac
You’re reading Fitzgerald, you’re reading Hemmingway
They’re both super smart and drinking in the cafés
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
-Jack Kerouac
pretty girls make graves.
-Jack Kerouac
And when you're holding me
we make a pair of parentheses.
There's plenty space to encase
whatever weird way my mind goes,
I know I’ll be safe in these arms.
Don't ever part your lips
Instead just follow my lead
And focus on the rhythm of my hips
Fingertips say more than I ever could
Sooner or later you must accept what
happened in your life, as your life.
+ + Das Versprechen
i saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and i could do anything i wanted.
-Jack Kerouac
It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
-Jack Kerouac
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
-Jack Kerouac
Just living is not enough. One must
have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
+ + Hans Christian Anderson
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
-Jack Kerouac
How could any kid grow up, hearing about crime and violence and war and sexually transmitted diseases, and not think, "Fuck, that sounds exciting." My mission is to sabotage you, but really, I want to help you. I don't want to live forever, Irving. I want to live and die and be afraid and excited and injured in a daring rooftop escape.
==============NOT POSTED YET
Some days go by, I wish I was famous. Or maybe religious, so I could go to heaven.
sometimes people are beautiful.
not in looks.
not in what they say.
just in what they are.
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the
candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
-Buddha
we'd meet up at night pretty late by the falls.
talked too fast without regret with headlights and stars,
it was brighter than the daylight.
I live in notes and photographs
and everything I'm holding back,
but you're the words that werent enough.
You remind me of a song I used to love.
Come now, don’t worry about the things you’ll do next week. For just this once can we pretend, it’s you and me. And everything that falls between the lines won’t mean a thing. So take my hand, we’ll run away from everything.
enjoy yourself. it's later than you think.
-- chinese proverb.
For a long time it had seemed to me that
life was about to begin - real life. But there
was always some obstacle in the way.
Something to be got through first, some
unfinished business, time still to be served,
a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
At last it dawned on me
that these obstacles were my life.
+ + Fr. Alfred D'Souza
to change one's life: start immediately. do it flamboyantly. no exceptions.
--william james
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for
wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday
night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a
pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls
or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
+ + Dr. Seuss
I've learned that I'm a taker and I need to be a giver and I promise you a whole lot more than I deliver. And I've learned that forgiveness is a simple gift of grace and I know I don't deserve it, but I see it in your face. I know a lot about living but I've got so much to learn about love.
I've got big dreams but no self-esteem, you know? I'd reach for the stars but I can't find my arms. All this time we've accomplished so much, why can't I believe? Why can't I just feel love?
we met for coffee and a cigarette and talked about how feeling gets when we hear a certain song that hits the spot and puts us in a world thats not real anymore.
I just get to missing so much. That feeling of everything in it's right place. You just feel so deeply that you don't ever give it a name.
=================== SAVE!
Lets go, drive til the morning comes.
And watch the sunrise and fill our souls up.
when you are feeling low,
i will be there to feel you up.
Someday I’m gonna go out to the country. I’ll drive til the highway ends,
chasing after picture perfect sunsets to take my breath away.
one day I will find the right words
and they will be simple.
-Jack Kerouac
And when you're holding me
we make a pair of parentheses.
There's plenty space to encase
whatever weird way my mind goes,
I know I’ll be safe in these arms.
Don't ever part your lips
Instead just follow my lead
And focus on the rhythm of my hips
Fingertips say more than I ever could
"when one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
-jaques cousteau
Clever got me this far, then tricky got me in. Eye on what I'm after, I don't need another friend.
You get smaller as the world gets big.
The more you know, you know you don't know shit.
But the night rolls around and it all starts making sense. There is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live. And so I do what I do and at least I exist. What could mean more than this?
If you don't like who you are and
where you are, don't worry about it
because you're not stuck either with
who you are or where you are.
you can grow. You can change.
You can be more than you are.
+ + Zig Ziglar
Just living is not enough. One must
have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
+ + Hans Christian Anderson
I think I've discovered the secret of life -
you just hang around until you get used to it.
+ + Charles Schulz
Well, I've got a bone to pick and a nerve to pluck,
a skin to get under and a home to wreck.
I've got ends to meet, so I've got a job to do.
I can't sleep at night because I feel that there is so much to
do and fix and change in the world, and I wonder every day
if I am making a difference and if I will ever express the
greatness within me, or if I will remain forever paralyzed
by muddled madness inside my head. I've wept on every
birthday I've ever had because life is huge and fleeting and
I hate certain people and certain shoes and I feel that life is
terribly unfair and sometimes beautiful and wonderful and
extraordinary but also numbing and horrifying and insurmountable
and I hate myself a lot of the time. The rest of the time I adore myself
and I adore my life in this city and in this world we live in.
This huge and wondrous, bewildering, brilliant, horrible world.
We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
-Jack Kerouac
What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
-Jack Kerouac
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
-Jack Kerouac
pretty girls make graves.
-Jack Kerouac
i saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and i could do anything i wanted.
-Jack Kerouac
It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
-Jack Kerouac
my witness is the empty sky.
-Jack Kerouac
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Kerouac
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
-Jack Kerouac
What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
-Jack Kerouac
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
-Jack Kerouac
Sooner or later you must accept what
happened in your life, as your life.
+ + Das Versprechen
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new
day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of
magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
+ + J.B. Priestly
Lets go, drive til the morning comes.
And watch the sunrise and fill our souls up.
when you are feeling low,
i will be there to feel you up.
Someday I’m gonna go out to the country. I’ll drive til the highway ends,
chasing after picture perfect sunsets to take my breath away.
one day I will find the right words
and they will be simple.
-Jack Kerouac
"when one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
-jaques cousteau
But the night rolls around and it all starts making sense. There is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live. And so I do what I do and at least I exist. What could mean more than this?
I can't sleep at night because I feel that there is so much to
do and fix and change in the world, and I wonder every day
if I am making a difference and if I will ever express the
greatness within me, or if I will remain forever paralyzed
by muddled madness inside my head. I've wept on every
birthday I've ever had because life is huge and fleeting and
I hate certain people and certain shoes and I feel that life is
terribly unfair and sometimes beautiful and wonderful and
extraordinary but also numbing and horrifying and insurmountable
and I hate myself a lot of the time. The rest of the time I adore myself
and I adore my life in this city and in this world we live in.
This huge and wondrous, bewildering, brilliant, horrible world.
We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
-Jack Kerouac
What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
-Jack Kerouac
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
-Jack Kerouac
pretty girls make graves.
-Jack Kerouac
i saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and i could do anything i wanted.
-Jack Kerouac
It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
-Jack Kerouac
my witness is the empty sky.
-Jack Kerouac
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Kerouac
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
-Jack Kerouac
What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
-Jack Kerouac
"It's Christmas, for goodness sake. Think about the baby Jesus... up in that tower, letting his hair down... so that the three wise men can climb up and spin the dradel and see if there are six more weeks of winter..."
Let's run away to a place where the air tastes like rain and the sun shines like Sunday morning. You bring your laugh and I'll bring my sense of humor, and we can taste the days, one week after another.
you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment. fools stand on their
island of opportunities and look toward another land.
there is no other land; there is no other life but this.
-Henry David Thoreau
great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
-jack kerouac
This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us,
It's time to make our move, I'm shakin' off the rust,
I've got my heart set on anywhere but here.
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
- Ray Bradbury
i remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself; So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
But I knew how good it would feel to be driving into darkness.
I have always been partial to the in between.
The blurred highway outside the window, that suspended time when everything you were lies behind you like a molted skin, and everything you might become shimmers at the horizon.
You might choose anything and make it happen, constrained by nothing but your own imagination, sure not even gravity can hold you.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
--pride and prejudice
i've done the merry-go-round,
i've been through the revolving door,
i feel like i've met someone i can
stand still with for a minute, and...
don't you want to stand still with me?
-- sex & the city
I trust the red sun setting,
The leafless November trees.
On Monday morning, I look forward fearlessly to Friday's eve.
But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees.
I wonder if you'll come back,
But I only have trust that you'll leave.
So, what can we do?
Hold tight to a fist-full of memories
of laughter and lyrics and late-night giggling
that ushered in the story of a summer,
a summer that loved us all.
Never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously, you never get hurt, you never get hurt, you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends.
- Almost Famous
once upon a time i wanted to know what love was. love is there if you want it to be, you just have to see that it's wrapped in beauty and hidden away between the seconds of your life. if you don't stop for a minute, you might miss it.
-cashback
hey thanks
thanks for that summer
it's cold where you're going
i hope that your heart's always warm
Today I saw cancer, cigarettes and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean, to swim with the sharks and the jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. That's why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live.
if you cut your body in half it would be useless; if you section off a piece of your brain it will be useless too. if you cut out a piece of your life then your life is going to become useless as well. you need to learn to live with your whole self to really get something out of life.
--Will
SHE LIVED IN PICTURES -- THE DEMOS
she lived in pictures
she cut out daily
the ones that she loved
and all her moving pictures
provoke emotions
and i'm in a few
and when i'm with her
she opens her eyes
its picture perfect
and then she cries,
please
take me home
we'll be alone
together someday
she can't stop laughing
its the drugs talking
its nothing to do
she is more than happy
with some better
better than you
and when i'm with her
we'd like in bed
she stared right at me when she said
please
take me home
we'll be alone
together someday
wait, but not too long
she'll be my girl
i can't be wrong
your girl
has fun without you
your girl
has fun without you
your girl
has fun without you
your love, love
please
take me home
we'll be alone
together someday
wait but not too long
she'll be my girl
i can't be wrong
please
take me home
we'll be alone
together someday
wait
but not too long
she'll be my girl
i can't be wrong
your girl
House: Are you going to base your whole life on who you're stuck in a room with?
Eve: I'm gonna base this moment on who I am stuck in a room with! It's what life is, it's a series of rooms, and who we get stuck in those rooms with, adds up to what our lives are.
======================= BEST FRIENDS
"A friend is someone who gives you total
freedom to be yourself" - Jim Morrison
"Maybe there isn't such things as good friends or bad friends, maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for, maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what it has to be. No good friends, no bad friends, only people you want, need to be with you, people who build their houses in your heart." - Stephen King
Here's a toast, to the good days, the better friends.
The ones that you just can't live without.
The people that have taught you how to party,
how to live, how to have a good time just sitting
around. Here are to the people that no matter how
bad things seem, are going to be there for you to lean
back on and catch you if you fall.
We are not the same person this year as last - nor are those we love.
It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
========================== SPORTS
even when you've played the game of your life
its the feeling of teamwork you'll remember.
you'll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores.
but you'll never forget your teammates
the thing about running is
you control your speed
it's up to you to push harder.
you can't just beat a team. you have to leave
a lasting impression in their minds, so they
never want to see you again.
-Mia Hamm
What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.
- Joe Paterno
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
- Haywood Hale Broun
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