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|quotations|

"So if you've got a heart and give it away and someone breaks it, fuck 'em."

- Eddie Vedder

"I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become. The alien man waved his arms up and down and noticed that he couldn't wave in the right language so he stopped."

- Henry Rollins

"Some days, life just looks like me versus every stupid chick in the whole damn world"

- Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

"if we weren't going to die, no one would give a fuck about god."

- Ben Harper

"I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff."

- Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

- Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

"This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."

- Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

"You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble."

- Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

"The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?"

- Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

"And if Christ had died from a barbituate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would He be in heaven?"

- Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

"Everywhere you look you find love,
But when you have none,
Opening your eyes can hurt."

- Miranda Blanton

"Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuçk for hours. This really seems to miss the point. I want my whole life to be lined with a topical anesthetic."

- Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

- Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are of all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death. Life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves."

- Bill Hicks

"He [god] just seems very man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature to need a religious crutch, and I don't begrudge anyone that. I just don't need one"

Janeane Garofalo

"I really shouldn't let you all see me this happy ... people might expect it all the time."

- Eddie Vedder

"It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself."

- Henry Rollins

"I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine."

- Henry Rollins

"The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink."

- Henry Rollins

"If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and hitting your car into a tree. If you really hate your parents, out earn them, out live them and know more."

- Henry Rollins

"There's no such thing as an ex-junkie."

- Henry Rollins

"Isn't it pathetic that we can fuck but we can't look each other in the eyes?"

- Henry Rollins

"Scar tissue is stronger than muscle tissue-you're turning me into scar tissue-I don't know if I should thank you or myself."

- Henry Rollins

"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic."

- Eddie Vedder

"Henry Rollins: "Anyone who thinks Keith Richards is a bad ass is an idiot. Keith Richards is nothing but a rich junkie with good connections"

- Henry Rollins

"I died, I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched me. I died and you walked by and said, 'No, I'm dead'"

- Eddie Vedder

"It's your move now. I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate you."

- Eddie Vedder

"You think I've got my eyes closed, but I'm looking at you the whole fucking time."

- Eddie Vedder

"Don't fall in love out there, okay? It's nothing but heartbreak."

- Jason Lee (Kissing A Fool)

"I don't want to know. I don't need it. I don't want the information that millions of people have. I don't want to be fed these boring facts and figures. Then you'll become one of the masses. I'd rather starve my mind a bit and have to search out nutrition in stranger places."

- Henry Rollins

"It's only an island if you look at it from the water."

- Roy Scheider (Jaws)

"When are you people going to learn? It's not about right or wrong - it's a question of faith. It doesn't matter what you believe in - just that you believe"

- Salma Hayek (Dogma)

"Half of life is fucking up - the other half is dealing with it."

- Henry Rolliins

"The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes"

- Chuck Palahniuk

"If you really have a lot on your mind, and you really want to do something with yourself...[then] Hating someone is giving them too much, Just leave them alone. Its like when someone wants to hand you a big pile of horseshit, you don't have to take it."

- Henry Rolliins

"The P word is poetry, and I don't like to use that word. I think poetry is for poets... cappuccino drinking beret wearing fake ass mustache having, striped shirt wearing, Velvet Underground adoring poets. Leaking, sniveling, moist clammy handed guys who can't get any. I just go up and express myself freely - that's what we call a euphemism for talking shit. When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension, especially in the poetry business. "I'm a poet", if someone said to me "I'm a poet" I immediately hate him, I'd say "You're a dick.""

- Henry Rolliins

"Ik hou van jougoedverdoemeIk hou van jou, Godverdomme ... ("I love you, God damn it!")"

- Eddie Vedder

"Pearl Jam ... the band with a message. Stay healthy. Eat your carrots."

- Eddie Vedder

"I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you."

- Henry Rollins

"Here's to 2,000 years of Christianity ... and to 15 minutes without it."

- Eddie Vedder

"... all these men trying to control women's bodies are really beginning to piss me off ... they're not in touch with what's real. Well, I'm fucking mean and I'm ugly and my name is reality."

- Eddie Vedder

"You have to keep some perspective. I keep thinking that we work hard, but it's nothing like what a construction worker does. The best thing is not to talk and just do. I hate doing these interviews. I feel like a damn idiot talking about this shit. A man that wields steel doesn't get asked for his autograph, but I do. I can't see it as anything other than bullshit. If you find yourself caught up in it in any capacity, it's dangerous. Nothing good comes out of it. I feel like an asshole that should be shot when I get asked to sign some fucking piece of paper."

- Henry Rollins

"You all have the voice. We are the majority. We have the power to take our country back (and to defeat those who) want to take our choices away from us."

- Eddie Vedder

"Don't drink when you're sick ... and don't get sick when you drink. Advice for the kids."

- Eddie Vedder

"It's OK to be gay in Memphis, isn't it? All right, let's take a vote ... yes? no? Anyone who said 'no,' you're a fucking asshole. Grow up, get a life!"

- Eddie Vedder

"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character."

- Henry Rollins

"Living is the best revenge."

- Eddie Vedder

"When I [Vedder] first came up and he [Chris Cornell] put out his hand to me early on which is so important to me it's almost undefinable. The first time we played he came to this little club and he told me that it was really good and he was thankful that I was there and that I was who I was, or something really nice, but the whole time he was saying this, he didn't realize but he was standing under a black light, and his teeth were glowing and his eyes were glowing. I remember it as my first conversation with Satan."

- Eddie Vedder

"Believe me, nothing is trivial."

- Brandon Lee (The Crow)

"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even concieve of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."

- Brandon Lee during his final interview

"You know what bothers me? The fact that die hard religious talk about Atheists being evil and stupid. Then they go and use Microwaves and Televisions and stuff like that. Little do they realize, those were all created in the name of science, which is based on the atheistic idea that god does not exist and everything is done by nature. Therefore die hard religious people are using tools of evil and stuff like that. They don't make sense."

- Mike Carey "Victims, aren't we all"

- Brandon Lee (The Crow)

"Bear down, and buy a good helmet"

- Unknown

"There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you from experience. All these cities I have been in the last few weeks make me fully understand the cozy, stifling state in which most people pass through life. I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, "Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case." I will turn and say to them "It is you who are the basket case. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!" And maybe, the passers by will drop a coin into my cup."

- Henry Rollins

"Only dead fish go with the flow"

- Unknown

"I want to smite you. A lot. At least twice."

- Unknown

"Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love."

- Charlie Brown

"Only a person who has not felt true love can move on in life saying 'There are lots of other fish in the sea.'"

- Unknown

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart, or burn down your house, you can never tell."

- Unknown

"I hate the stars because I look at the same ones as you do, without you."

- Unknown

"That thing. That moment. You kiss someone, and it's like the world around you gets all hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this other person, and you know that one person is the person you're meant to be kissing the rest of your life. And for that one moment you've been given this amazing gift and you want to laugh and cry at the same time because you're so lucky you found it and so scared that it will go away."

- Drew Barrymore (Never Been Kissed)

"We all go a little mad sometimes"

- Anthony Perkins, Psycho

"A little out of touch, a little insane. It's just easier than dealing with the pain."

- Dave Pirner,Soul Asylum

"When life hands you a lemon, just go 'Yeah I like lemons, what else ya got?'"

- Henry Rollins

"Hold on to your depression, learn from your depression"

- Jim Morrison

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

- Tom Clancy

"If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them. If you hate someone, hate them until it hurts."

- Henry Rollins

"It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time."

- Henry Rollins

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"When you truly know the meaning of the word love, You will also know the true meaning of the word pain."

- Javan

"Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God."

- Olive Schreiner

"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend."

- Grace Noll Crowell

"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

- J.E Buckrose

"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."

- J. August Strindberg

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

- Jean Anouilh Ardele

"I sought for Love
But Love ran away from me.
I sought my Soul
But my Soul I couldn't see.
Then I sought You,
And I found all three."

- Anonymous

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."

- Mark Twain

"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry."

- Unknown

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

- Lewis Carrol

"Why love if losing hurts so much … I have no answers anymore … only the life I have lived. ... The pain now is part of the happiness [then]."

- Anthony Hopkins, Shadowlands

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

- Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved

"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lover's don't finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along."

- Jeraluddin, Rumi

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said 'Love is the only rational act'."

- From Tuesdays with Morrie

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

- William M. Thackeray

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition"

- Alexander Smith

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get.
It's what you're expected to give-which is everything"

- Unknown

"Love is when you look into someone's eyes and suddenly you go all the way inside their soul and you both know it."

- Unknown

"Love is like a butterfly; chase it, it will run; pay no attention to it and it will sit softly on your shoulder."

- Unknown

"The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep us going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying. Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"

- From Tuesdays with Morrie

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to something that gives you meaning and purpose."

- From Tuesdays with Morrie

"Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own."

- From Tuesdays with Morrie

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it."

- Robert Fulghum

"Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate."

- David Pratt

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

- Robert Brault

"Only a life lived for others is worth living."

- Albert Einstein