Words
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
August32012
Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
John Krakauer
9PM
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.
Llyod Alexander
9PM
There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
Stephen Chbosky
9PM
I do not say ‘good-bye.’ I believe that’s one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. It’s not like you’re given the choice to say ‘bad-bye’ or ‘awful-bye’ or ‘couldn’t-care-less-about-you-bye.’ Every time you leave, it’s supposed to be a good one. Well, I don’t believe in that. I believe against that.
John Green, David Levithan
9PM
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
“THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC Kurt Vonnegut
“THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC Kurt Vonnegut
9PM
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
9PM
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
Lemony Snicket
8PM
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H.G. Wells
8PM
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell
8PM
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk
8PM
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
8PM
I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
June222012
The sensation was scissors and too much to scream, so instead I just started to laugh
The Antlers, Shiva
June162012
Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
Jon Stewart
9AM
You know we’ve had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock “My God, my God—” I said to myself. “It’s the Children’s Crusade.
Kurt Vonnegut
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