I've lost my patience for the internet and for all these websites that are meant to connect us. I decided to rely less on technology and more on real-life experiences because I'm only missing out on bigger and better things. If I want to detach from reality, I can pick up a book or watch a movie. So, I deleted my myspace page, but I wanted to save some things I collected there. I am a collector of words. I love quotes, and I love to feel the connection to people in the past who have felt things I have felt, and thought about things the way I have thought about things. I makes me feel as though I'm not quite so alone and perhaps I'm not as crazy as I think I am. Here is what I saved:
"It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees."
-Emiliano Zapata
"Think for yourself and question authority."
-Timothy Leary
"She was a manic depressive named laughing boy."
-Modest Mouse
"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."
-Christopher McCandless
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Dr. Seuss
"Mefiez-vous des apparences, Ca n'a aucun sens."
-"Burger Queen" by Placebo
"Do not let dreams die, for without them, life is like a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
-Neil Gaiman
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
-John/Savage
"Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better."
-Palahniuk
"What would Marilyn Monroe be doing if she were alive right now? Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
-Palahniuk
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where no one intudes,
By the deep sea and the music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more."
-Lord Byron
"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
"You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore..."
- Neil Gaiman
And just for fun:
"I don't want you to be the guy in the PG-13 movie everyone's *really* hoping makes it happen. I want you to be like the guy in the rated R movie, you know, the guy you're not sure whether or not you like yet. You're not sure where he's coming from. Okay? You're a bad man. You're a bad man, Mikey. You're a bad man, bad man."
-Trent, Swingers
That is all for this installment of the randomness that is me.
I love quotes. They should be a catalyst for meditation.
ReplyDeleteI think you'll very much like The Contortionist's Handbook, and House of Leaves. The first is as clever as it gets, if you're into Palahniuk. The latter, is... majestic and weird and fascinating and it might just be your thing if you're a good reader.
ReplyDeleteAs for music.
That's a shot in the dark, but:
Death cab for cutie - Transatlanticism
maybe Mew - Frengers
and the song Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros
Again, long shots.
Let me know if you liked any of it