"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."
~ Aristotle

"I chose love over sanity -- it doesn't make me a monster."
~ Jade McKnight [(C) Nephthys Jeckel]

"All That We See or Seem, Is But a Dream Within a Dream"
~ Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within A Dream"

"The fantastic is the real that most people want to ignore."
~ Robertson Davis

"Truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be intolerable if it were either."
~ Oscar Wilde

"He woke her than, and trembling and obedient she ate that burning heart out of his hand. Weeping I saw it bend apart from me. Could he, daily feel a stab of hunger for her, and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. Would she see through the pass of his plight and ache for him?"
~ The Burning Heart, from Hannibal by Thomas Harris

"I'm not insane. I'm a sane man fighting for his soul."
~Mr. Renfield, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
~ Oscar Wilde

"He who has a thousand friends has not one to spare."
~ Emerson

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
~ Aristotle

"'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.''The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master, that's all.'"
~Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth'."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
~ Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"

"A mighty flame follows a tiny spark".
~ Dante

"Well, because it's all fiction that character lives in the hearts and minds of people and can forever."
~Stan Kirsch, October 1998

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."
~ Emily Dickinson

"...life is fleeting but talent lives on."
~ Jeff Gelb

"Talent develops in tranquillity; Character in the full current of human life"
~ Goethe

"a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers." ~Starhawk

"Passion and emotion - that give depth and colour and meaning to human life"
~ Starhawk

"I write what I know, in language taht is familar. I tell the stories for those who cannot"
~ Beth Brant

"There is no such thing as unreality; there are only various forms of reality"
~ Eugene Lonesco

"One man's psychotic is another man's visionary"
~ No Man's Land: A Novel

"Life is the biggest joke of all"
~Joker, No Man's Land

"Life's a joke and all things show it/ I thought so once, but now I know it."
~ a comicbook

"Behind every exquisite thing existed, there is something tragic."
~ 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

"When reason fails, the devil helps."
~ 'Crime and Punishment', Fyodor Dostoevsky

"True Beauty is untangable."

"Matrimony is sometimes convenient, but never delightful"
~ La Roche Poucauld

"Life resembles novels more than novels resemble life."
~ George Sand

"Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change..."
~Sade, from a letter to his wife, written in prison, November 1783

"Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell.... Kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."
~ The Marquis de Sade, Last Will and Testament

"I have imagined everything conceivable in this sort of thing, but I have certainly not done, and certainly never will, all that I have imagined."
~ Marquis de Sade

"Render others as happy as one desires oneself to be, and never inflict more pain upon them than one would like to receive at their hands"
~ The Marquis de Sade

"No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain. Its impressions are unmistakable."
~ The Marquis de Sade

"In order to derive pleasure from the humiliation of and exaltation of the flesh one must ascribe value to the flesh."
~ Simone de Beauvoir

"A poor fool indeed is he who adapts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so."
~ Marquis de Sade, 1783

"The opinion or the vices of private individuals do not harm the State; through their morals only public figures exert any influence upon the general administration."
~ Marquis de Sade, 1783 Letter to his wife

“Not art and works of art make the artist, but feeling and inspiration and impluse”
~Friedrick Schlegel, Fragment #63

“He who desires a result accepts the means of obtaining it”
~Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Love them that hate you, but you can’t love them whom you hate”
~Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“A person with artistic sensibility relates to the reality of dream in the same way as a philosopher relates to the reality of existence”
~Friedrich Nietzszhe

”All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.”
~Goethe, Faust.

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
Christina Georgina Rossetti

“A place in thy memory, dearest,/Is all that I claim;/To pause and look back when thou hearest/The sound of my name.”
~Gerald Griffin

“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,/Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;/Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,/How could I seek the empty world again?”
~Emily Brontë

“There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment – but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
~Lord Byron

“For the memory of love is sweet, /though the love itself were in vain. /And what I have lost of pleasure, /assuage what I find of pain.”
~Lyster

“What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory.”
Henry David Thoreau

“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.”
George Eliot

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
~Alfred Mercier

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
~Confucius

“Believe in your heart that something wonderful is about to happen”
~ Flavia Weedn

“It is never easy reaching for dreams, but those who reach walk in stardust.”
~Flavia

“Every moment in time gives us the chance to love, to learn, to dream…and to become more than we ever imagined.”
~ Flavia

“Never be afraid to dream, for your dreams can take you where your heart yearns to go.”
~Flavia

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window."
~Stephen King

“We use myth to legitimate ourselves.”

"The worst torture possible is being able to feel emotion and love, knowing that your affection will never be returned. Eternity is a long time to feel unrequited love."
~ Jester.

“Good and evil are opposite species of the same genus.”
~ Emile Durkheim

“For all the sad words of tongue or pen,/The saddest are these—it might have been”
~John Greenleaf Whittier

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves…”
~Oscar Wilde

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously.”
~Henry Kissinger

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
~ Mark Twain

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
~ Mark Twain

“The past as a precise idea has meaning and value only for the man who is aware that he has a passion for the future.”
~Paul Valery

”The mind of a man is more powerful than matter.”
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pardit


“You got your family by blood, and you got your family by choice”
~Emmett, ‘Never Tear Us Apart’

“Love is never hopeless, my boy. Love is full of hope. It’s hate that is hopeless.”
~Lynn, For Better or For Worse

“I'm pretty sure there's no time limit on wishing’
~Mikey, fanfiction

"Two roads diverge in the woods and I - I took the road less traveled on and that has made all the difference."
~Robert Frost

“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
~Euripides

“Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves”.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
~Dr. Seuss

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself”
. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends”
. ~Virginia Woolf

“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”
~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
~Leo Tolstoy

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
~e.e. cummings, 1955

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
~e.e. cummings

“We are what we are, Scott--wishing won't change a blessed thing. Nor will feeling sorry for yourself. I learned that very early on that I must either accept what I am, or go mad. And though I am now occasionally crazy, I am not insane. If you keep tearing your guts apart every time you think the world's shafted you, my friend, you'll destroy not only yourself--but those who love you.”
~Nightcrawler, X-Men Comic

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
~Fredrich Nietzsche

“…It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”
~ Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“At four I was madly in love with Alan Hirsch, who was madly in love with Cynthia Fishman. He played doctor with me but swore he would marry her when he grew up. At age four I was already the other woman. I should have known then. But no, I had hopes.”
~Gail Parent, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

“They’ve begun to kiss each other now; that’s the biggest step, because it requires a certain effort that just getting off does not: it implies an intimacy that goes beyond the mechanics of purely genital sex. Orgasms can be solitary or social, but kissing can only ever involve two people. Even when they tentatively touch each other, even when they are naked and pressed against each other, they are not quite as close as when their lips and tongues meet and they explore each other’s mouths, tenderly at first and then more roughly.”
~ Comfort and Joy by Minnow

“Why must humans be so confusing? They pretend and lie, backstab and plan, hate and hurt. Humans, being creatures of habit as that old cliche says, cannot seem to find a solid block of emotions to stick with. They’re bundles of contradictions neatly wrapped in skin and held together with bones, as dangerous as a ticking bomb, and just as fickle and frightening.”

~ Nighttime Secrets by silver_sunn101

“Missing Him is like homesickness in your very own living room.”
~Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped

“What you feel is yours. Your feelings are facts.”
~Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped

“Most of our suspicions about other people are aroused by our knowledge of ourselves”
~ Raymond Massey

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”
Albus Dumbledore

“Sense is so trivial when someone so perfect is next to you feeling the same things you are, wanting the same things and knowing you and loving you anyway.”
~ From Nonsense by magicalweasleb

"Those scars denote a person who went through hell and lived to tell about it"
~Guild by Association

“Why does it all have to be so cut and dried? Black and white, straight or gay, boys or girls? Why aren't we just allowed to fall in love with whomever comes along that we happen to fall in love with and not care what gender they are?”
~ James Potter written by blackmurtlap in utter_rubish

“Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink tea with in the afternoon.”
~ Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty.

“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
~ Malcolm S. Forbes

“A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.”
~Shopgirl, Steve Martin

Adult friendship doesn’t grant you an exclusive, isn’t ment to be ranked above romance and family. I couldn’t imagine ever living that moment again, when you say, with a shy and hopeful pride, “you’re my best friend.” The other person says it back and, there, you have chosen each other, out of everyone else in the world. You have fallen in love and said so.
~ The Myth of You and Me, by Leah Stewart

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. “
~ Truman Capote

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
~ Carolyn See

“Or become a woman, solitaire, chaste, unregenerate- loneliness is no prize to me, nothing alone lives; it just lasts.”
~ Rima Banerji, Sugar Zero

“Look, we all deal with addictions of one form or another. We all do things that ultimately kill us. We all commit suicide but to different degrees.”
~ Sky Gilbert

“But she may be in love with her, and if she is, isn’t that the highest ethic?”
~ This is Not For You, Jane Rule

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions . . ."
~ Lillian Hellman

“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“In the end one loves one’s desire not what is desired.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the sex instinct which makes woman seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all.”
~ H.L. Mencken, New York World, September 12, 1926

“It’s a funny thing that people are always quite ready to admit it if they’ve no real talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.”
~ Nancy Milford, Christmas Pudding, 1976.

“Myth us a seductive, poetic enterprise by which we express our deepest wishes, as well as our most profound anxieties.”
~ 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived, Allan Lazor, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter.

“The beauty of these stories can only be realised when the characters remain where they belong, neither in the world of truth nor the realm of fiction, but beyond the world of reason.”
~ 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived, Allan Lazor, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter.

“To be the only one, and to know that you are real – that’s sanity, isn’t it?” ~ Psycho, Richard Bloch

“An able body is nothing without an illuminated mind.”
~ The Lost Diary of Don Juan, Douglas Carlton Abrams