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[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Just kinda put your favourite quotes from books, plays, films, music, etc. It doesn't need to be inspirational or deep, but something really well-written or soul-wrenching.

 

Mine's probably from Macbeth, which I still remember two years since reading it. It's after the proposed suicide of Lady Macbeth, and shortly before the Witches' prophecy is fulfilled.

 

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

[Bofur]

"Where I point, there is fire."

[Pasidon]

"Moop."  ... Sorry, I'm illiterate.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I confess I had hopes for you, Pas. Then you smashed 'em.

[Pasidon]

"Those vague feelings quickly yielded to the humerus side of the accident."  Cthulhu 2000

 

We should make a coherent story based off quotes from random books.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

I have no reply adequate to this.

[Pasidon]

"Perhaps you do not know what I mean by corn traveling." Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden

[Bofur]

"The children must be burned in the river" my failed Latin translation of "The books must be thrown into the river...

[Mathijs]

“The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.” ~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Edited by Mathijs, 10 October 2013 - 09:12 PM.

[Pasidon]

"That's just it, sir.  You forget that I'm no longer a boy." The Lion and the Mouse

 

Edit- "Quote blocked by Vador for the last time." Me

Edited by {IP}Pasidon, 10 October 2013 - 09:14 PM.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Mathijs... wow. That's what I hoped for with this topic, as opposed to that purple douchbag. That is... darkly inspiring.

[Mathijs]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline is a brilliant writer. You should read Journey to the End of the Night.

[Pasidon]

Serious stuff is boring, and non-douche'y.  I hold in my hand Lord of the Rings fan fiction written by Jay Richards, a 23 year old Walmart employee... I will pull quotes from it if I have too.

[Mathijs]

“So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...” ~ LFC

 

Better, Pas?

Edited by Mathijs, 10 October 2013 - 10:50 PM.

[Pasidon]

Hmm... you live... this time.

[Bart]

I don't think this one really fits with the intentions of this topic, but last week I saw the movie "Escape Plan" in which Arnold Schwarzenegger said:

You hit like a vegetarian!

Obviously it's not deep, inspirational, well written or soul wrenching It's just the most recent memorable quote I can remember.

[Hostile]

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

~CEO Walmart Sam Walton

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

I'm not overbearing, I'm passionate, and I'm right, I'm passionate about being right.

 

-Frasier.

[DIGI_Byte]

"Who watches Frasier?"

-DIGI 2013.

[DIGI_Byte]

"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly,

absolutely just with friend and foe.

From this purpose nothing shall turn me"

-Edgar Allan Poe

 

Choice words, Words i can admire and adhere to respectfully