So Let It Be Written, Let It Be Done.
Metallica

And the soul afraid of dying, never learns to live.

This is the last smile that I'll fake for the sake of being with you.
Linkin Park

No I don't prefer obscurity but I'm an idealistic girl and I wouldn't work for you no matter what you paid. And I may not be able to change the whole fucking world but I could be the million that you never made.
Ani Defranco

Do not go gently into that good night
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
Dylan Thomas

Not all shadows are cast by light...some are cast by darkness.

Love in memory stains you forever; it will always linger and will never fade away.
P.J. Harvey

One moment of pure, unadulterated joy is more magical and more powerful than an entire lifetime of sorrow.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm the shadow right behind you.

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you’re so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because you’re thinking about them for the same amount of time.
Marilyn Manson

Crawling in my skin
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real
Linkin Park

Sometimes, to stay sane, you have to go a little crazy.
Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted

She's been everybody elses girl...maybe one day she'll be her own.
Tori Amos

No one can ever know me...no one can ever see me
Seems you're the only one who knows what it's like to be me
Someone to face the day with...make it through all the rest with
Someone I'll always laugh with...even at my worsts, the best with you...
The Rembrandts

Now, finally, I hear my own voice and it's always been here...silent all these years.
Tori Amos

When your heart is empty, what's in your head doesn't matter.
Jerry Maguire

And I know it aches...and your heart it breaks...and you can only take so much.
U2

It won't rain all the time, the sky won't fall forever
and though the night seems long, your tears won't fall forever
The Crow

I hold myself hostage in the mirror, but if you could hear the voice in my heart I would tell you I'm tired of feeling this way...I am afraid I will always be alone.
Jewel

When there's more in your head then you find in your life, it calls for a change.
The Sundays

We are not your sinners, our voices are for real...we won't die of devotion, understand we can never belong.
Richey James Edwards and Nicky Wire

Run and tell all of the angels this could take all night
I think I need a devil to help me get things right.
The Foo Fighters

It never leaves my mind, the last words she said.
If I don't find it this time, I'm better off dead.
PJ Harvey

Even at a time like this, when morning seems so far, think that pain belongs to you but it's happened to us all.
Dido

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
Jewel

When you're lonely and you start to hear the little voices in your head at night, you will only blink away the tears so you can dance until the morning light, but at what price?
Oasis

I'm going crazy, a little everyday, and everything I wanted is now driving me away.
I woke this morning to the sound of breaking hearts...
mine is full of questions and it's tearing yours apart.
Sheryl Crow

I think you have to know who you are, get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don't want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me. Everything is therapeutic, no matter what you do.
Tori Amos

And all I know of love is how to live without it.
The Carpenters

I'm not afraid of sadness. yet even when you cry, until you can't cry anymore, you get to the point where you decide, for example, that you want to play with a drummer. Sadness lets you wear stilettos, sadness lets you dance in the moonlight. She just has dark rims around her eyes.
Tori Amos

The mind is it's own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, Hell of Heaven.
John Milton

Pardon me while I burst into flames
I've had enough of the world
and its people's mindless games.
Incubus

I wish that I could hold you now
I wish that I could touch you now
I wish that i could talk with you...
be with you somehow.
R Kelly

I know in the past I've caused you pain, and I'm sorry.
And I'll always be sorry until the day I die.
And I hate this pen I'm holding, because I should be holding you.
I hate this paper under my hand because it isn't you.
I even hate this letter, because it's not the whole truth.
Because the whole truth is so much more than a letter can even say.
If you wanna hate me, go ahead. If you wanna burn this letter, do it.
You could burn the whole world down. You could tell me to go to Hell, I'd go, if you wanted me to.
And I'd send you a letter from there.
My So Called Life

Some people care too much. I think its called love.

Today. Today was a day.
The world got smaller, darker.
I grew more afraid.
Not of who I am but of what...
I grew more afraid.
Not of what I am but of what I could be.
I loosen my collar to take a breath. My eyes fade.
And I see... Him. The image of perfection.
His frame strong. His lips smooth.
And I keep thinking. What am I so scared of...
I wish I could escape the pain, but these thoughts invade my head.
Bound to my memory, they're like shackles of guilt.
Oh God, please set me free...
Dawsons Creek

Just one touch and I'm know I'm going to stay for always.

There's alot of things I don't understand
And there's alot of things that I don't wanna know
But you're the only face I recognise
It's so damn sweet of you to look me in the eyes.
Splendor

Hell can lie between the lashes of a beautiful woman's eyes.

Don't call it a dream or fantasy, nobody knows my soul burned as fire while my heart was broken so heavy... you might have known it was you.

Life has been unfaithful... it promised so, so much. I am a relic, I am just a petrified cry.
Nicky Wire

When you're cold, I'll be there to hold you tight to me
When you're on the outside and you can't get in, I will show you, you're so much better than you know.
Sade

All that is great is built upon sorrow.

A universe that came from nothing in the Big Bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious zillion years of existence not even a memory.
Paul Davies

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain,
The only thing that's real.
Nine Inch Nails

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth, a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
Helen Keller

Youth is wasted on the young.
Robbie Williams

Trust yourself
Think for yourself
Act for yourself
Speak for yourself
Be yourself.
Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hands and showing it to them.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
J. Krishnamurti

Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live.
Vittorio Alfieri

Do any human beings ever realise life while they live it? Every minute? No... I should have listened to you. But that's all human beings are. Just blind people.
Our Town

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change, you will change.
Dr. Robert Anthony

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

Do you think your appearance should cover up your personality? Then you're as fickle as the wind that blows my dreams away.
Zofia Highet: Apple Blossom & Nivea Cream

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who would rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in the closet.
Caleb Carlton

If I make it through today, I'll know tomorrow not to leave my feelings out on display.
The Lemonheads

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wildflower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

With some people, solitariness is not an escape from others, but from themselves, for they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Eric Hoffer

Some satellites of pain can't always be ignored... there's nothing like losing you.
Bush

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

What you are thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
Joseph Epstein

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
Anon

Here’s to the kids who are different,
Kids they call crazy or dumb,
Kids who don’t fit
With the guts and the grit,
Who dance to a different drum.
Digby Wolfe

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow.

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; Speech as shallow as Time.
Author Unknown

On the outside you see me laughing
But that's only skin deep
For on the inside I'm really crying
Won't you join me for a weep.
Author Unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

What do I care what impression I make on people? It's because we waste our lives caring about what others think that most of us remain morons.
Colin Wilson

Say thou dost love me, love me-toll,
The silver iterance! - Only minding, dear,
To love me also in silence with thy soul.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Are we too tired to try and understand?
The Manic Street Preachers

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

I paint pictures to remember you... you're too beautiful to put into words.
PJ Harvey

We have a home. We just need a house to put it in.
10yr old homeless girl

These are not dark days, these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man - the struggle to keep a proud mind despite an empty purse - the keeping of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving

Life hasn’t really begun until you find the one for which you would die.
Sarah Halbrook

You'll learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.

All I wanna do is live, no matter how miserable it is.
The Manic Street Preachers

Time is a train
Turns the future into the past
Leaves you standing at the station
Your face pressed up against the glass
U2

Day after day I must face a world of strangers where I don't belong.
The Carpenters

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird

It matters not how strait the gate;
How charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
W E Henley

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be; because you have only one life and once chance to do all the things you want to do.
Author Unknown

Fashion is a substitute for individuality.

Religion is for people who fear Hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there.
David Bowie

How come, of all the people in the world, only one of them can make me complete?
Garbage

As I'm driving away in this taxi cab, and the driver said
Are you sure you want to leave him?
Bijou Philips

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

I've done things I never thought I'd do, so sure it helps to lose myself in you.
Garbage

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as beautiful.

There's no way around pain. It's part of the charm of being alive.
Alanis Morissette

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi

The Girlfriend
Your eyebrows arched like rainbows
Your eyes are liquid deep
Your scarlet lipstick red like cherries
Beautiful, but cheap.
Ankh Girl

Real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk, but of darkness and silence.
Anon

It could be questionable as to whether human beings naturally evolved on this planet or have been misplaced. However, there is one thing for certain, no living creature has caused so much upheaval and devastation. We assume the Earth we share will indefinitely carry our relentless abuse. We are wrong; she has begun to retaliate.
Author Unknown

He who has nothing to die for, has nothing to live for.
Moroccan Proverb

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
Armand Hammet

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
TS Eliot

For all the times I never said what I should have, I thank you for all the times you understood.
Author Unknown

Love comes to those who still hope although they've been disappointed, to those who still believe although they've been betrayed, to those who still need to love although they've been hurt before, and to those who have the courage and faith to build trust again.
Author Unknown

There are too many people; and too few human beings.
Robert Zand

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at the table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Every day hurts a little more
Every day hurts a little more
And I'll do anything
Yes, I'll do anything
To belong
To be strong
To say there's nothing wrong.
Skunk Anansie: Twisted

All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and we change partners, we dance to a song of heartbreak and hope all the while that somehow, somewhere, there is someone perfect who might be searching for us.
The Wonder Years

No man is worth your tears, and the only one who is will never make you cry.
Author Unknown

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not to be pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
John Berger

Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and I’m yours forever.

Listen, my friend, there are two races of human beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies, people who just live, ordinary people, people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honour and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
Jean Anouilh

You deserve someone who knows what they've got, when they've got you.
The best advice on men I've ever been given... thanks Sarah

Our greatest pretences are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean

I am running away from something dreadful and cannot escape it. I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor... it is myself I am weary of and find intolerable and a torment. I want to fall asleep and forget myself and cannot, I cannot get away from myself.
Alexei Tolstoy

When you argue in front of your children, it changes who they are.
Author Unknown

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river. While you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river, moved on and moved away. No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Marina Tsvetaeva

I hate what I have become to escape what I hated being.
Marilyn Manson

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved
Shakespeare

I'm tired of closing my eyes to picture you in my mind. It feels so cold to be alone.
Take That

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
EE Cummings

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Paul Tournier

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. The people you can bravo and hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis: The Longest Life, 1962

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you'll never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrens

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; as in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Samuel Johnson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

He who fights with monsters, should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze into the abyss, take care that the abyss does not gaze into you.
Nietzsche

Hell is in your heart.

Incarnading
Red was the carpet still moist to the touch
And red was your anger when it all came too much
Loud was the gunshot, shrill were your screams
And red was the bullet that shattered my dreams.
Ankh Girl

I could stay lost in this moment forever... I want to stay with you in this moment forever.
Aerosmith

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie to close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly, only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.
Stephen King

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring; all of which have the potential to turn life around.
Author Unknown

Promise you won't forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
Winnie the Pooh

What shall it profit a man, to gain the whole world and lose his soul?
The Bible

The days are bright and filled with pain.
The Doors

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Braveheart

Keep in mind we're under the same sky, and the night's as empty for me as for you.
Billie Myers

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

I always thought I would look back at the tears and laugh but I never thought I would look back at the laughter and cry.
Author Unknown

Art is the one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth Burns

My whole life's been really strange
I've been running in circles trying to make a change.
Milla Jovovich

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who stand for nothing, fall for everything.
Malcolm X

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of the darkness and confusion of thought.
Francis Bacon

I'm not lonely, swear to God. I'm just alone.
Jann Arden

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.
TH White

By dying young, a person stays young forever in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his light shines on for all time.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.
George Orwell: 1984

Keep wildlife in the wild.
The Born Free Foundation

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.

Pray that your loneliness spurs you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammerstein

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

I still live.
Famous last words

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