Some More Quotes

Keeping in the spirit of my below post, I'm going to keep going with the quotes. It's one of those days I guess. Where I can't count on myself to be original, so it's much better to steal someone else's shit...

A mind not to be chang'd by place or time.The mind is its own place, and in itselfCan make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
-Milton, Paradise Lost

I read once that the Egyptions had 50 words for sand, and the Eskimos have 100 words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep, and there are no words for that.
-Mark Andreas

Pour out the ocean and sweep up the woodFor nothing now could ever come to any good
-Auden

A simple child
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
-Wordworth, We Are Seven

The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.
-Wordworth, The Solitary Reaper

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love and thought and joy.
-Wordsworth, The Sparrows Nest

"Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous
-Vonnegut, Slapstick

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
-Nan Fairbrother

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
-John Keats

Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.
-Marion Parker

I was waiting for such a long time, she said. I thought you forgot. It's hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.
-Brian Andreas

We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.
-Vonnegut, Man without a Country

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-Edward P. Tyron

These Next ones are all Vonnegut, in honor of my favorite writer...

"You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything--and I advise you to do the same."

"People are hated a lot of places...Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty."

"Why should I bother with made up games, when there are so many real ones going on?"

"Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either."

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."

"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee."

"And not many words come now, either, when I have become and old fart with his memories and his Pall Malls, with his sons full grown."

"He supposed that the intent of the gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low. But the Gospels actually tought this: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected."

"I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living."

"A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys."

"Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. What do they want to talk about? They want to talk about everything."

"I am a Humanist, which means, in part, I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead."

"What is it? What can it possibly be about? Blow jobs and golf?"

"That's the end of good news about anything. Our planets immune system is trying to rid itself of poeple."

" What made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the Saints I met, who could be anywhere. By Saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly undecent society."

"Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at the Arabs? They brought us Algebra. Also, the numbers we use, including the symbol for nothing, which the Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman Numerals."

"Evolution is so creative. Tha's how we got Giraffes."

"There is no reason Good can't triumph over evil. If only Angels would get organized along the lines of the Mafia."

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

"The Purpose of Human Life, no matter who is controlling it is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

That is all for now...