Arthur Nersesian
“I’m like… a hungry dog that’s following you everywhere and you won’t feed me but you won’t let me starve either.” – The FuckUp
“… a unique distortion of perfection.” – The FuckUp
“Death is the final shield from life.” – The FuckUp
“… I am content, the closest we can come to a sustained happiness.” – The FuckUp
Ben Folds Five
“You have made me smile again, in fact - I might be sore from it, it's been awhile... All I really wanna say, is you're the reason I wanna stay, but destiny is calling and won't hold, and when my time is up I'm outta here… All I know is I've gotta be, where my heart says I oughta be, it often makes no sense, in fact - I never understand these things, I feel.. I love you, goodbye... I love you goodbye...” – Don’t Change Your Plans
“I should warn you I go to sleep, I know you don't know what I mean yet, I get upset or happy, I go to sleep nothing hurts when I go to sleep but I'm not tired I'm not tired...” – Narcolepsy
Ben Harper
"And I'm waiting on an angel, and I know it won't be long to find myself a resting place in my angel's arms, in my angel's arms, waiting on an angel, one to carry me home, hope you come and see me soon cause u don't want to go alone" - Waiting on an Angel
"With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one? But you put the happy in my ness, you put the good times into my fun" - Walk Away
Bloodhound Gang
“Have you seen my will to live, because I seem to have lost it.” – Magna Cum Nada
Colin Firth
"Grandma said she felt like Rapunzel, but who everyone's forgotten about. She said, 'My prince would get a bit of a nasty shock if he climbed the walls and saw me now, wouldn't he? He shouldn't have been so blessed long about it.'" - The Department of Nothing
Dave Matthews Band
"It seems strange to have a record company say: 'No. No hurry."' the singer said. "I don't know if they're expecting to be incredibly disappointed. I wouldn't put it past them — unless we all put our instruments down, get real fit and start dancing." – Dave Matthews in an interview about an upcoming album (turned out to be Everyday).
“It’s hot as fuck but not too hot to fuck.” – Dave Matthews
“It’s the cold and flu season... it’s the fall... all the colors... red, orange, yellow... but where’s all the green???... IT’S UP YOUR NOSE!!!!” – Dave Matthews
“College: the hurling, puking tertiary education that every good American should have.” – Dave Matthews
“I hear more than I like to… So I boil my head in a sense of humor… I laugh at what I cannot change... I throw it all on the pyre again… Go then and do this I’d do it for you... When all that I want is so badly to be… By myself again… It’s going to drive me right out of my brain… I’m over this arrangement… around here… emptiness sounded so good… I want to drive you right into my world” – Drive in, Drive out
“I have no lid upon my head, but if I did you could look inside and see what’s on my mind… and oh it’s you” – Let You Down
“The future is no place to place your better days.” – Cry Freedom
“Death comes to the seeker and death comes to the fool, death comes to us all one day, let the river of time swim over you…” - Mother Night
Foo Fighters
“If you walk out on me, I’m walking after you.” – Walking After You
Green Day
“I cannot speak, I’ve lost my voice, I’m speechless and redundant ‘cause I Love You’s not enough, I’m lost for words.” – Redundant
Helen Fielding
" '....How's your love life anyway?' Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?' Everyone knows that dating in your thirties is not the happy-go-lucky free-for-all it was when you were twenty-two and that the honest answer is more likely to be, 'Actually, last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little Angora crop-top, told me he was gay/a sex addict/a narcotic addict/a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo,' than, 'Super, thanks.'" - Bridget Jones's Diary
"Work has become like going to a party in order to get off with someone and finding they haven't turned up." - Bridget Jones's Diary
"'You should have just said 'I'm not married because I'm a Singleton, you smug, prematurely aging, narrow-minded morons,'' Shazzer ranted.''And because there's more than one bloody way to live: one in four households are single, most of the royal family are single, the nation's young men have been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a whole generation of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun and don't need to wash anyone else's socks. We'd be as happy as larks if people like you didn't conspire to make us feel stupid just because you're jealous.'' 'Singletons!' I shouted happily. 'Hurrah for the Singletons!'" - Bridget Jones's Diary
"'She's been like this since she went to Albufeira with Una Alconbury and Audrey Coles,' he sobbed, trying to wipe his cheek with his fist. 'When she got back she started saying she wanted to be paid for doing the housework, and she'd wasted her life being our slave.' (Our slave? I knew it. This is all my fault. If I were a better person, Mum would not have stopped loving Dad.) 'She wants me to move out for awhile, she says, and... and...' He collapsed in quiet sobs. 'And what, Dad?' 'She said I thought the clitoris was something from Nigel Coles's lepidoptery collection.' - Bridget Jones's Diary
"Sharon maintains men...are so catastrophically unevolved that soon they will just be kept by women as pets for sex, therefore presumably...men will be kept outside in kennels." - Bridget Jones's Diary
Indigo Girls
“How long 'til my soul gets it right?” - Galileo
John Cusack
“I’m not the kind of person who has fear about natural disasters. I’m more frightened at the thought of walking across a street, tripping and breaking my neck.” – Calgary Sun
Rob: “I'm sick of the sight of this place. Sometimes I'm afraid I'll go berserk, throw the Country A-K rack out into the street and go work at a Virgin megastore and never come back.” - High Fidelity
Rob: “What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns or watching violent videos, that some culture of violence will take them over. No one worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?” - High Fidelity
Rob: “I can either stick up for myself, or I can believe everything you say about me and end up hating myself, but that's not much of life, is it?” - High Fidelity
Rob: “So what am I gonna do now? Just keep jumping from rock to rock till there aren't any more rocks left? Should I bolt every time I get that feeling in my gut when I meet someone new? I've been thinking with my guts since I was 14 years old, and frankly speaking, I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains!” - High Fidelity
Martin: “...but I just honestly don't know what I have in common with those people anymore. I mean, or with anyone, really. I mean, they all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do, and what am I going to say? ‘I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?’” - Grosse Point Blank
Limp Bizkit
“Ain’t life a bitch? A fucked up bitch, a fucked up soul with a fucked up stitch, a fucked up head is a fucked up shame, swinging on my nuts is a fucked up game, jealousy filling up a fucked up mind, it’s real fucked up like a fucked up crime.” – Hot Dog
“Dead from all the loneliness and this is how I feel… Or maybe you're the reason why I'm losing all my decency, Cause I believe that you and me We could be so... Happy and free” – The One
“If you're alone don't you cry, if you can hide then go hide away, I want you to stay and blow me away, your way, I want you to stay and blow me away, away, your way” – The One
“But do we always gotta cry, do we always gotta live inside a lie, life's just a blast cuz its movin' really fast, So ya better stay on top or life'll kick you in the ass.” – Take a Look Around
“Does anybody really know the secret, or the combination for this life and where they keep it, it's kinda sad when you don't know the meaning, but everything happens for a reason, I don't even know what I should say, Cuz I'm an idiot, a loser…” – Take a Look Around
“Cuz life is a lesson, you'll learn it when you're through.” – Take a Look Around
“Why’d I have to go and meet somebody like you? (like you), Why’d you have to go and hurt somebody like me? (like me) How could you do somebody like that, you know that I'm never coming back. Depending on you is done (is done), Giving to you is done, No more eating, no sleeping, no living, It's all just what giving to you and I'm done (and I'm done), The hiding from you is done (is done), The lying from you is done, No more eating, no sleeping, no living, It's all just what giving to you and I'm done (and I'm done). Why did I have to go and meet somebody like you? (like you), Why do you have to go and hurt somebody like me? (like me), How could you do somebody like that, You know that I'm never coming back… But why?…Why?…” - Boiler
“I'm waiting for you, I know you're leaving, I'll still adore you, You'll never need me. Hold on, I've found another way to let you go away. Hold on, you've found another way to bleed my soul away.” – Hold On
Me
“But yeah, even in my spoofed warped twisted fragile mind, I understood.”
“It's just soo not cool when I see him and I'm like, ‘I wonder what it'd be like to just do him.... Get him in the sack and just rape the hell out of him.’”
“How am I gonna compete with a porn?”
“It'd be like Tennessee - 15 million people, 10 last names."
“I wish there was a smiley that was like, ‘I want to punch you in the face.’”
Melissa Bank
"I am a solid, trying to do a liquid's job." - The Wonder Spot
Moby
“Why does my soul feel so bad?” – Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Morphine
“You're a bedtime story... the one that keeps the curtains closed... I hope you're waiting for me... 'cuz I can't make it on my own... I can't make it on my own...” – The Night
Nick Hornby
Check out the movie/read the book High Fidelity.
"I was disappointed, to be honest. I was hoping she'd talk about how beautiful the picture was - how holy, sort of thing. And I wanted her to explain that if you wanted to see the nipples you really had to get up close, like the vicar had to, and what kind of vicar you were if you wanted to do that. And I wanted to hear why she'd done it, too. I mean, there had to be an idea behind it, didn't there? A meaning, kind of thing. It's not just something you'd wake up in the morning and do, is it? You know, 'What am I going to do with all these pairs of breasts I've been cutting out? Oh, I might as well turn them into a picture of Christ on the cross...'" - NippleJesus
The Offspring
“Sitting on the bed or laying wide awake, there's demons in my head and it's more than I can take, think I'm on a roll but I think it's kinda weak, saying all I know is I gotta get away from me...” – Gotta Get Away
Orson Scott Card
“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.” – Ender’s Game
“Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” – Ender’s Game
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes”- Ender’s Game
"We only hire college grads because they have proven that they can go through four years of doing meaningless tasks as assigned, thus proving they can survive in our corporate environment." – Online Chat with PSU Hazleton Honor’s Students, Spring 2001
Phish
“Each betrayal begins with trust.” – Farmhouse
Pink Floyd
“If you didn't care what happened to me - and I didn't care for you - we would zig-zag our way through the boredom and pain - occasionally glancing up through the rain - wondering which of the buggers to blame - and watching for pigs on the wing.” – Pigs on the Wing 1
“You know that I care what happens to you - and I know that you care for me too - so I don't feel alone or the weight of the stone - now that I found somewhere safe to bury my bone - and many a fool who know a dog needs a home - a shelter from pigs on the wing...” – Pigs on the Wing 2
“How I wish.. how I wish you were here... we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year... running over the same old ground... what have we found... the same old fears... wish you were here...” – Wish You Were Here
Sarah McLachlan
“What ravages of spirit conjured this temptuous rage… And fate has led you through it, you do what you have to do… And I have the sense to recognize that I don’t know how to let you go… The yearning to be near you, I do what I have to do… Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you… I know I can’t be with you, I do what I have to do…” – Do What You Have To Do
“Is misery made beautiful right before our eyes? Will mercy be revealed or blind us where we stand? Will we burn in heaven like we do down here? Will the change come while we’re waiting? Everyone is waiting…” - Witness
“Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for a break that would make it okay. There's always some reason to feel not good enough, and it’s hard at the end of the day. I need some distraction, oh beautiful release. Memory seep from my veins. Let me be empty and weightless and maybe I’ll find some peace tonight… You’re so tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn there’s vultures and thieves at your back… It’s easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees…” - Angel
“It’s just you and me on my island of hope… Let me be the calm you seek… Oh and everytime I’m close to you, there’s too much I can’t say, and you just walk away…” – I Love You
“I miss the little things, I miss everything about you…” – Sweet Surrender
“Put aside, I put away, I push it back to get through the day. And all I feel is black and whie and I’m wound up small and tight. And I don’t know who I am…” – Black and White
“I feel just like I’m sinking, and I claw for solid ground. I’m pulled down by the undertow. I never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.” – Full of Grace
“But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed, and the pain that’s in your truth deceiving my has got me scared… You’re gone and I’m lost inside this tangled web I which I’m lain entwined” – Vox
“Through this world I’ve stumbled, so many times betrayed, tryin’ to find an honest word to find the truth enslaved… My body aches to breathe your breath, your words keep me alive.” – Possession
“I never would have opened up, but you seemed so real to me… Don’t tell me I haven’t been to you. Don’t tell me I haven’t been there for you. Just tell me why nothing is good enough… Oh so just let me try and I will be good to you. Just let me try and I will be there for you. I’ll show you why you’re so much more than good enough…” – Good Enough
“What kind of love is this that keeps me hanging on despite everything it’s doing to me? What is this love that keeps me coming back for more when it will only end in misery?” – Circle
“Everybody here knows how to cry.” – Ice cream
Sheryl Crow
“Are you strong enough to be my man?” – Strong Enough
Staind
“All this time that I felt like this won't end was for you, and I taste what I could never have - it's from you... and I waste more time than anyone... all the times that I cried, all this wastin’ - it's all inside, and I feel all this pain, stuffed it down - it's back again, and I lie here in bed all alone, I can't help what I feel...' – Outside
“My light has slowly faded, broken and degredated, suffocate in my sorrow, maybe I'll die tomorrow, this riot that I've sited, came to you uninvited, truth hurts when it's in your face, are you afraid of it? Fuck, I will self destruct..” - Self Destruct
Vast
“I can't find anything except a void inside… I don't have anything because I don't have you…” – I Don’t Have Anything
Weezer
“I’m bitter and alone…” – The Good Life
“Everything I need is denied to me, and everything I want is taken away from me, but who do I got to blame – nobody but me.” – The Good Life
“Why bother? It's gonna hurt me, it's gonna kill when you desert me...” – Why Bother
Miscellaneous
"..Time is all the luck you need. And if I stay lucky then my tongue will stay tied, and I won't betray the things that I hide." - 7 Mary 3, Lucky
"Do you wonder why I turn away when you look at me - never wanting your eyes to see the desperate heart that knows how perfect we could be." - I'm told it's 98 degrees
"I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head and walk with you through that lucent wavering forest of bluegreen leaves with its watery sun & three moons towards the cave where you must descend, towards your worst fear. I would like to give you the silver branch, the small white flower, the one word that will protect you from the grief at the center of your dream, from the grief at the center. I would like to follow you up the long stairway again and become the boat that would row you back carefully, a flame in two cupped hands to where your body lies beside me, and you enter it as easily as breathing in. I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary." - Margaret Atwood
“No man is worth your tears – the only one who is will never make you cry.”
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under the love which it cannot return.” – George Eliot, English author (1819-1880)
“Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt!”
“Be nice to people on the way up. They’re the same people you’ll pass on the way down.” – Jimmy Durante (1893-1980).
“It is not so much what we have done amiss, as what we have left undone, that will trouble us, looking back.” – Ellen Wood, English playwright and journalist (1813-1887).
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other.. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.”
“Endurance is when everybody else has given up and you're in competition with yourself.”
"There are two means of refugre from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer
"It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care."