“Man in Black: If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope, or a tree branch, or find something useful to do. Inigo: I could do that. I have got some rope up here. But I do not think that you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you. Man in Black: That does put a damper on our relationship.”I just had to put Princess Bride on here to ease me pain. I hope I shan't be slain.
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”Life is hurt, life is horrid, life is the worst thing you could possibly imagine. But life is good. Life is one of the best things that will happen to you. Above all else: Life is not fair. Not fair not fair not fair. Did I say it enough? Do you get it now? I suppose the point is to get what you can but not care what you can't.
-The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."I liked this because often I just have ideas and say things and sometimes they're not entirely consistent. But I am true, I am right, I am myself. This is what I think he is trying to say. He does not care if he seems contradictory to others, he knows what is true within himself, and he accepts this. The accepting part is the harder one I think.
-Walt Whitman
"You can sleep when you're dead. Life is too short."Life is short, that is why people are always wanting to do something, they don't know enough, they can't do enough, they're not satisfied. Why else were cell-phones invented? We always want something done yesterday. Moving faster moving faster, what's the limit on how fast people can go? There is always something to do, especially now. And yet it doesn't seem to me as if humans can always be doing something important or necessary. Then they could go crazy, depending on who they are. We want to do something with ourselves, and in order to do that, we must always be doing SOMETHING! Humans don't want to be bored, they want to be stimulated. Evolution at work? Maybe. Or maybe this has been something that's always been there. Why else would we be what we are?
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"I would let the world be rent in half before I could sing with any woman but you."
I write down a lot of quotes like this, then I go back and think that I must be stupid to think that that one was special. I guess maybe they all are. I just wrote this one because at the time I wished someone would feel that way about me. Well, maybe not the world splitting part, but perhaps if I was that self-centered. Maybe I am. Not entirely sure about everything I am yet. But anyway, I guess the set-up was so well done that I just had to write this one down. And it kind of sort of applies to me ever-so-slightly. So here you go. A man who would rather let the world "go to hell" than be with someone other than his beloved. I wish I could find mine, but how do I know who to look for or where to look? I have a poem about this written recently. Also a review of the book this came from and why I don't really enjoy talking about books I read that often. Maybe I will actually post these instead of being lazy like I did with the Phantom posts I mentioned back in January. (They're written, I'm just too lazy to put them on here) But we're all human. Though sometimes I almost wish I weren't. I'm working on that.-Archangel by Sharon Shinn
This is a quote I found humorous about trying to control powerful feelings. It is really interesting that most people never kill anyone else. And then some people do. I find myself asking, "Why?""Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live."
Children of the Mind, Orson Scott Card page 259
So true. So very very true. I don't really need to elaborate upon this, do I?"Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior."
-Empire, Orson Scott Card
