Other Quotes

It takes more courage to suffer than it does to die

The brave don’t live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all

Remember not the words of your enemies, but the silence of your friends

I have so many different personalities in me, but I still feel lonely

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. –Paul McCartney

What teenagers do to each other is beyond description, no Chinese torture comes close

People must be told about the self-loathing that comes after rape, and that it is the breaking of divine law to mutilate ones self, as I have done

You don’t need a space ship when they don’t know you’ve lived on the other side of the galaxy

I say it now here by your grave, those angels can’t ever take my place

If you allow yourself to feel the way you are feeling, maybe you wont be afraid of that feeling any more

If you want wisdom, you cannot buy it at the store. You can't get invited to that party. You have to do the work.

I'm doing this so that people who feel that at 21 their lives are over, or they don't know how to have an intimate physical relationship, that they can be beautiful people again

I started to accept the mess I'm in. I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

I have good days. Like if I get really good coffee ice cream with just the right amount of chocolate syrup

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself

Even though I had been working my way out of that violent experience I realized that I would remain a victim of it until I recognized the violence in myself. And my willingness to give up my Victims Anonymous badge followed my realizing that the withholding of passion and pleasure, from myself, was a form of self-violence

Aggression starts where people suppress their feelings. At some point those emotions force their way out and that results in all sorts of trouble

It's funny but on good days I don't think of her so much. In fact never. I never just say hi when the sun is on my tongue and my belly's all warm. On bad days I talk to Death constantly

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare

I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul

Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful

I am a real believer in looking at pain and taking it out shopping

You might cry, you might even cry so much that there are no more tears left inside of you, that you feel you've become dry, but still your grief lets you make decisions and lets you grow as a person."

"Death is somewhere inside me. She was the kind of girl all the girls wanted to be, I believe, because of her acceptance of 'what is.' She keeps reminding me there is change in the 'what is' but change cannot be made till you accept the 'what is

You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay

Im an acquired taste, Im anchovies & not everyone wants those hairy little things. If I were potato chips,I could go more places

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death

So fast, I become part of your past, a part that doesn’t last, I’m losing you and its effort less

I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life trying to teach the voices in my head to harmonize…but some people just don’t want to cooperate.

You should make amends with you, if only for better health, if you really want to live, why not make yourself

I'll show you mine if you show me yours, lets compare scars I'll tell who's worse

Theres always an other, wound to discover…theres always something more you wish he’d say

Into the uncertainty of who I am and where I will be and what I want from all the bleeding…

And she will be the darling of all the magpies in the way…

I’m tired of adding members to my entourage of ghosts…

Why do her songs always bring my ghosts in for tea?

He’s melting into the floor and I don’t have anymore rope to throw him…

Moments of warmth bring me down, like the way she tried to make me smile even when I was trying to cry. There would be a shuffle of feet and a clearing of the throat and I would return to comfortable complaint.

Had a cat named Easter he says we never learn, we’re just an empty cage if we kill the bird…

Oh that summer, we traveled the world, never leaving his own back garden. Girls, they didn't know, just what he could be...oh but he let me go sailing

I haven't failed i've just found 10,000 ways that won't work

A-B-C-D-E-F-G-GUMMY BEARS ARE AFTER ME ONE IS RED AND ONE IS BLUE THE YELLOW ONE JUST STOLE MY SHOE WHEN I FIND HIM I WILL SUE THAT'S WHEN I'LL GET BACK TO YOU...

Life: It's the ultimate sin, a game with no rules that you're expected to

win

Animals and children tell the truth, they never lie. Which one is more human? Theres a thought now, you decide

People are forgetting what an enormous and magical thing it is to be a woman. And sometimes it takes a bit of flesh to carry that

As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a child of man

Fate has lead you to it, you do what you have to do...fate has lead me through it, I do what I have to do

The truly wise person kneels at the feet of creatures, And is not afraid to endure the mockery of others....

I can only tell you what I know...that I need you in my life. And when the stars have all gone out you still be burning so bright

Even if we can never be again...I need to go on pretending with you until my very end

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes." ....Tori Amos

"Only thing women hate more than being a sexual object is not being a sexual object."...SW member – CasualObserver

I am not the one who will completely understand you,

for all that you are. I am the one who will completely

accept you, for all that you are.

I did not design this game, I did not name the stakes, I just happen to like apples and I'm not afraid of snakes

Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts,they serve for sweet relieving when fantasy n reality lie too far apart

Cold in the sun, my feet on the ground, a pale windless city, a numbness for sound

I wonder how you sleep, I wonder if you think of me...if I could go back, would you have ever been with me?

I’ve relied on my illusions,to keep me warm at night & I’ve denied in my capacity to love, and I'm willing to give up this fight

I looked into her eyes and saw that she knows things beyond this life...of darkness and of light

despite the on lookers,and sweet hand written notes,and men who pleasured themselves with thoughts of her. She was alone

Consciousness...that annoying time between naps

I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving
those who destroy them

Because a mind is a wonderful thing to twist

The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

You see, you scare the shit out of people, and that way they won't see how scared you are

People dislike alcoholics, but they still drink at parties. People sit in non-smoking sections in restaurants, but still enjoy the occasional nicotine jolt. People have strong feelings against self-injurers, but they also take all their emotions out on other people

and I'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately
in-love with suffering

Conformists look around and follow closely; Nonconformists look around and do the opposite. Individualists don't look around a lot

Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes,
And perfect makeup,
But you're barely scraping by

And the fog rolls heavy on her
and she feels the weight of life
though it’s red blood flowing from her heart
it feels like cold blue ice
and the colours mix together
to grey

Not being dead isn’t being alive

Who took away the part so essential to the whole
Left you a hollow body
Skin and bone

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Be what you would seem to be -- or if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise

Who the hell wants to be a healthy, organic whole when you can be a brilliant, injured, human fragment

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness

And you can use my skin
To bury secrets in

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do

Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise

A memory is whats left when something happens, and then doesnt completely un-happen

Almost fearless

Looking for my reason

I know we are the lucky ones to have what we had...even if its all in the past.

give me life, give me pain, give me myself again

with your pretty wing; a wing can cover all sorts of things.

I found a way to dance with sorrow.

sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

You don't need my voice, girl, you have your own

who will bring you back from where there is no return?

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. –Albert Einstein

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. –Leo Tolstoy