"The worth of that is that which it contains,
And that is this, and this with thee remains."
-- Unknown

"I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not to blame your pleasure, be it ill or well."
-- Unknown

"Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter,
In sleep a king, but waking no such matter."
-- Unknown

"Yet, do thy worst old Time. Despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young."
-- Unknown

"Then others for the breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect."
-- Unknown

“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
-- overheard on NPR

“she is beautiful. i am drawn to her. she is kind. she never tells me ‘there is no time.’ she never says ‘No!’ and i think about her every time i fuck you.”
-- Henry Rollins

"When I die, and you stuff me will you promise to give me really pretty glass eyes?”
--Meleksah

"The day is treating me like i stole it's women."
--JB

“Death. Death. Death. If you say it enough, people will think you have a lisp.”
--Ian

“You are what you learn to need”
--The Swans

“The brighter the light, the greater the shadow cast”
--NK

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves”
--Anonymous Web Humor

“The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth”
--More Anonymous Web Humor

"In this Palace of Lies a truth or two will not hurt you. Your friends are the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even viscious: they are only 'frail'. They are not artistic: they are only lascivious. They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self representing, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaninative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls."
--Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

“Believing oneself is to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind”
--???

“Roses are red, until they die”
--Alison

“Love maims, wounds, kills. But it’s absence, well, anything’s better than that.”
--???

“What people want now's a good time, and they want it with a vengeance. Certainly that drive is what'll be powering the type of folks who'll be on their way over to my shop to try and buy the smokes they'll need for long hours at the city's gaming tables and dance halls. The weather alone would rule out any darker motivations. The breezy, light arms of the night air will wrap themselves around all those keen, hopeful souls, and they'll tear into the town like a meat district dog who's smelled out a bit of bone at the bottom of an ash heap. Most of their activities won't amount to nothing, of course, but that doesn't matter, part of the strange fun of getting rooked into thinking that anything's possible on the beaten, dirty streets of this Big Onion is knowing that if you don't find what you're looking for tonight, it's all that much more important that you try again tomorrow."
--Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness

“So crystalline, Like the darkness. So cryptic, Like the tortured death of my destiny. I am silver."
--Ariadne Zeitwellen Masters-Chambers

“There is much darkness to be found in seduction. But you may need to sacrifice your pain-filled soul to find it…”
--Ariadne Zeitwellen Masters-Chambers

“Why are my desires so silver with graveyards? And why do I no longer care?"
--Z. Hazel Ballantine, O My Graveyards

“Why are my eyes so somber with night? And why do I no longer care?"
--Z. Hazel Ballantine, O My Knowledge

“It was then, staring into the shadows, that my desires first became cryptic."
--Z. Hazel Ballantine, O My Seduction

“Why do we love the blood and beauty? My dear, you need only to look into your own cryptic desires to find out.”
--Z. Hazel Ballantine, O My Beauty

"There's a look in a person's eye they get, which shows that they've gone so completely over the edge that they're laughing at you from the bottom of the cliff. It's commonly seen; you can spot it on anybody climbing a clock tower carrying a violin case, or folks entering book depositories with a trombone case, or people showing up to work at the US Postal Service with a suspicious looking semiautomatic rifle that they're carressing like a baby."
--Magical Troubleshooting Crossover Fighting Tourament BETA, anime FanFiction brought to you by Craig

"Have you ever been jealous? It's like watching the future curdle before your eyes."
-- The Host, The Hunger on Showtime

"True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring -- once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome...except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous."
-- Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

"Life is a mortal coil. wrapped in cheap tin foil on a kitchen sink"
-- Oingo Boingo, "Dream Somehow"

"That which we experience in dreams, if we experience it often, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as is anything we "really" experience: we are by virtue of it richer or poorer."
-- Friedrich Nietzche

Uma: "Disappointment doesn't kill." Jeanine: "No, rejection kills, disappointment only maims."
--The Truth about Cats and Dogs

"Knowledge is power power corrupts study hard be evil."
--t-shirt

“Why is my existence so obtenebrated with damnation? And why do I no longer care?”
--Cryptic Solitude, “Dark”

“There is much darkness to be found in knowledge. But you may need to sacrifice your Stygian dreams to find it…”
--The Tortured, “Bitter”

“There is much darkness to be found in shadows. But you may need to sacrifice your perfect soul to find it…”
--W. H. Ranier

“Why is my mind so isolated with solitude? And why do I no longer care?”
--Julian Myndfyre

“The agony in my visions mirrors the dreams of my crystalline purpose.”
--Julian Myndfyre

“So silent, Like the darkness. So isolated, Like the somber agony of my purpose. I am darkness-enshrouded."
--Julian Myndfyre

“Why do we love the knowledge and the blood? My dear, you need to look into your own cryptic solitude to find out.”
--Anonymous

“It was then, staring into the poetry, that my bitter spirit was truly born.”
--Lemuel W. H. Ranier, Pain-filled, Obtenebrated, Tortured

“So crystalline, Like the dark places. So unliving, Like the silver moonlight of my spirit. I am pain-filled.”
--Lemuel W. H. Ranier, Tortured, Silver, Unliving

“Speak to me, O dreams Surrender your flawed mind Take with you my heart My seduction.”
--Contessa Belinda Di Carciofi, Beauty and Mind

“What is it about the moonlight that draws my heart in? The blood? The somber seduction? The fear? The dormant shadows? I would give up my tortured visions to know.”
--Anonymous

“There is much darkness to be found in suffering. But you may need to sacrifice your silver destiny to find it…”
--Contessa Belinda Di Carciofi, Tragedy and Existence

“So unliving, Like the graveyards. So somber, Like the Stygian darkness of my visions. I am silent.”
--Anonymous

“The dreams in my mind mirror the fear of my immortal fears.”
--Hilda and Prudence Boynton, Master of the Pain-filled Solitude

“It was then, staring into the poetry, that my isolated soul was truly born.”
--Hilda and Prudence Boynton, Master of the Exquisite Purpose

“Why is my solitude so dark with solitude? And why do I no longer care?”
--Hilda and Prudence Boynton, Master of the Silver Existence

“Speak to me, O moonlight Surrender your tortured soul Take with you my mind My dark places.”
--Hilda and Prudence Boynton, Master of the Darkness-enshrouded Solitude

“Speak to me, O fear Surrender your somber solitude Take with you my solitude My blood."
--Hilda and Prudence Boynton, Master of the Stygian Spirit

“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.”
--John James Ingalls

“Tis after death that we measure men.”
--James Barron Hope

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”
--A. Sachs

“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
--Winston Churchill

“Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.”
--William Mitford

“Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.”
--Walter Scott

“To stop sinning suddenly.”
--Elbert Hubbard

“All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.”
--Mark Twain

“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
--Henry Van

“A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.”
--Seneca

“I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.”
--Joyce Cary

“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.”
--Lucan

“We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.”
--Mark Twain

“Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.”
--Proverb

“Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!”
--Thomas F. Healey

“I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.”
--Hugh Hamilton

“God's finger touched him, and he slept.”
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
--W. Somerset Maugham

“He that lives to forever, never fears dying.”
--William Penn

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
--Bertrand Russell

“How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.”
--Eric Hoffer

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
--William Shakespeare

“Most people would rather die than think: many do.”
--Bertrand Russell

“Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”
--Francis Bacon

“It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear,' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'”
--Dorothy Parker

“Death is life's answer to the question ‘Why?’”
--Graffito

“The first breath is the beginning of death.”
--Thomas Fuller

“The play is the tragedy "Man" And its hero the conqueror, Worm.”
--Edgar Allen Poe

“Dying is a very dull dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing to do with it.”
--W. Somerset Maugham

“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
--Joseph Stalin

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
--Friedrich Nietzsche

“Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.”
--La Rochefoucald

“I'm not afraid to die, I just don't to be there when it happens.”
--Woody Allen

“All Life death does end each day and each die dies with sleep”
--Gerard Manley Hopkins

“How oft when they were at the point of death Have men been merry!”
--Shakespeare

“But I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed”
--Shakespeare

“The rest is silence.”
--Shakespeare

“Who shall deliver me from the body of this death”
--Romans 7:24

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
--Psalms 23:4

“Dear beauteous death! the jewl of the just/shinig no where, but in the dark.”
--Henry Vaughan

“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.”
--Sir Edmund Spenser

“Death and life were not Till man made up the whole Made lock, stock, and barrel Out of his bitter soul.”
--WB Yeats

“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
--Joseph Hall

“Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done.”
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A sweet and noble thing it is to die for one's country.”
--Horace

“Let age aprove of youth, and death complete the same.”
--Robert Browinng

“...silence sounds no worse than tears, after death has stopped the ears.”
--A.E. Housman

“Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one Phillip”
--Massinger

“I know death has ten thousand several doors for men to take their exits”
--John Webster

“Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high need.”
--John Keats

“...death is the cure of all diseases.”
--Sir Thomas Brown

“Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted.”

--Percy Blysshe Shelley

“...death makes equal the high and the low.”
--John Heywood

“Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.”
--John Masefield

“Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.”
--Dylan Thomas

“And come he slow or come he fast, it is but Death who comes at last.”
--Sir Walter Scott

“Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you.”
--Ivan Turgnev

“Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?”
--Thomas Gray

“Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.”
--Socrates

“If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.”
--James Baldwin

“Fear not death, for it is your destiny.”
--Ben Sira

“If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?”
--Confucius

“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.”
--Madame de Stael

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.”
--Anais Nin

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
--???

“Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.”
--Jawaharlal Nehru

“Ashes to ashes, life passes on, & back to the essence, your presence is gone.”
--???

“When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.”
--???