Quotes

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!”

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.”

“Scars have a strange power to remind us that our past is real”

“If you know thy enemy and know thyself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful”

“One of these things is not like the others. One of these things, just doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others, by the time I finish this song.”

“How many trails have I gone down for no reason, just to learn that I can't leave myself behind. And the only devil I've ever seen was in the mirror, and the only enemy I know is in my mind”

“Humans cannot subsist on the scanty satisfaction they can extort from reality.”

“Happiness is your biggest enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.”

“Trust those who seek the truth, but doubt those who say they have found it.”

“But beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury. Terry Pratchett is not one to go gentle into any night, good or otherwise.”

“Why are you so petrified of silence? Here can you handle this? ... Did you think about your bills, you ex, your deadlines Or when you think you're going to die? Or did you long for the next distraction?”

““The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.””

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

““In this house, I am God””

““I’ve learned to live with my rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.””

““It is never too late to be what you might have been.””

““All the evils in the world were scattered from Pandora’s Box, while the one potentially mitigating force, Hope, remains locked securely inside.””

“Vicarious trauma, also known as secondary trauma, can be described as indirect exposure to a traumatic event through first-hand account or narrative of that event. Any person who has a significant relationship with a survivor of trauma may also experience secondary traumatization. People in the helping professions—counsellors and therapists, rescue workers, police officers, doctors, and lawyers—may be at risk of vicarious traumatization.”

““Without music, life would be a mistake.””

“I learnt that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”

““Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy.””

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

““All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.””

“"Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment."”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance”

““Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.””

““These prison walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, gets so you depend on them. That's institutionalised. They send you here for life, that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyways.””

““Sometimes I wish for falling, wish for the release. Wish for falling through the air to give me some relief. Because falling's not the problem, when I'm falling I'm at peace. It's only when I hit the ground it causes all the grief.””

“There are other fucking songs and there are other fucking ways I'll be a religious apologist on other fucking days But the fact remains if you protect a SINGLE kiddy fucker Then Pope or Prince or Plumber, you're a fucking motherfucker”

““Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.””

““I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.””

“How dare you!”

“This is my brain and I live in it. It’s made of love and bad song lyrics. It’s tucked away behind my eyes, Where all my fucked-up thoughts can hide. ‘Cause god forbid I hurt somebody.”

““I’m tired of trying to change and not knowing how. Because no matter how much I change, I’m still left with me.””

““He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.””

““We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and not be afraid of it. ””

““Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.””

““I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection””

““Nobody sent me a Christmas card today. I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasise it?””

“All experiences are preceded by the mind. Having the mind as their master, created by the mind” “The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.”

““As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.””

““Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.””

““Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive.””

“It’s true: No matter what I’m going through, there are people in the world who have it worse. But that doesn’t make my experiences any less real. It is possible to empathise with others while acknowledging and working through my own pain.”

““I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach a port, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie an anchor.””

“And, by extension, I imagine sharing my story of sexual abuse, or emotional abuse, or pregnancy loss, and being dismissed and minimised by others who think my story isn’t extreme enough to have created such lasting trauma. And who do I think I am, anyway, to claim a place among real victims?”

““I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward””

““Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.””

“But, we forgive them, because they’re the best in their field. There’s never going to be another king of Rock ‘n Roll, and I promise you, there will never be a better silent movie star. At what point do we as a society go, but they were good. What I’m trying to say is: How talented do you have to be to fuck a kid?”

““On the turning away, from the pale and downtrodden. And the words they say, which we won’t understand. Don't accept that what's happening, is just a case of others' suffering. Or you'll find that you're joining in the turning away.””

“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.”

““The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.””

“At some point, it stops hurting”

““Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.””

“Hope is a dangerous thing my friend, it can kill a man”

““She cracked a smile. ‘So what's your poison?’ He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. ‘Life.’ ‘Ah,’ she said ruefully. ‘That'll kill you.’””

““We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.””

““Nobody knows what they should believe, it could be lies, but when I come back home to you I realise I know the only truth and I have got to let you know. That since you’ve come along the troubles in my mind have gone and I insist on being everything you’ve wanted for so long.””

““Hello old friend. And here we are, you and me, on the last page.””

““Born under a bad sign, I’ve been down since I began to crawl. If it wasn’t for bad luck, you know I wouldn’t have no luck at all””

““Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.””

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

“Your prison is walking through this world all alone”

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it”