<< quotes from visionaries <3 >>

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does" -

Jean Paul Sartre

“The music was like being beaten up, only it didn’t hurt..” –

Melvin Burgess

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” –

Gandhi

“I wear my heart on my sleeve; you wear your heart on your penis” –

Journal Enjoy Audrey

“He's fucking her brains out inside of my brain. I hear the music that is playing as he pushes into her. It’s some obscure musical taste. Something bitter and new. When it’s all over I can hear his heart beating and her voice whispering oh, god...oooh god, you are fucking good. And then he looks at her and says, well you’re way better than her.” –

Journal Heartforsale

“You can be battered and beaten and half insane, and he can turn around and say what’s the matter? You know I love ya. Love. They should bottle it and sell it. It cures everything” –

Willy Russell from ‘Shirley Valentine’

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love” -

Jane Austen

"They don't even know what it is to be a fan. Y'know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts” – Almost Famous "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre." -

Kurt Vonnegut

“It’s funny how beautiful somebody looks when they’re walking out the door” –

Velvet Goldmine

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return” –

Moulin Rouge

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." -

Anais Nin

“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative” –

Martin Luther King

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” –

Albert Einstein

“O rose, thou art sick; The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy” –

William Blake ‘The Sick Rose’

“To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner” -

Anne Rice

“And let me tell you something.. I’ve had enough of Irish Americans who haven’t been back to their country in twenty or thirty years and come up to me and talk about the resistance of the revolution back home. And the glory of the revolution. And the glory of dying for the revolution. FUCK the revolution! They don’t talk about the glory of KILLING for the revolution. What’s the glory in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children, where’s the glory in that? Where’s the glory in bombing a remembrance day parade of old age pensioners with their medals taken out and polished up for the day, where’s the GLORY in that? To leave them dying or crippled for life or dead under the rubble. Of the revolution. Which the majority of the people in my country don’t want” –

Bono

"Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.” -

Chinese Proverb

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months” -

Oscar Wilde

"She believed in nothing; only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist." -

Jean Paul Sartre

"Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality" -

Johnny Rotten

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness" -

Maya Angelou

"Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity" –

Graffiti

"In the immortal words of The Doors, 'The time to hesitate is through.' " –

Empire Records

“Listen to Tommy with a candle burning and you will see your entire future” –

Almost Famous

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself” –

J K Rowling

"What if you can go back in time, and take away all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better" –

Donnie Darko

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute” -

Josh Billings

"My strongest trait is curiosity, I'm just lifting stones, you know, opening doors. Looking out windows, around corners, up skirts" –

Bono

“I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well” –

Kyffin Williams

“I talk to God but the sky is empty” –

Sylvia Plath

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” -

Albert Einstein

"All the information I have about myself comes from forged documents" –

Vladimir Nabokov

"The truth is I've never fallen so hard, it's taken everything in me just to forget your sweater so far" –

The Spill Canvas

“Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view” -

Dennis Koenig

“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent” -

George Orwell

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity” -

Oscar Wilde

“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain”

John F. Kennedy

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who is capable of reasoning” –

Plato

“A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown” –

Manic Street Preachers

"This is the part where i symbolically rip off everything from my walls and tell you i don't want to be this girl anymore" –

Journal Glitzi

“Silence is a text easy to misread” –

A. A. Attanasio

“In this country, people die emotionally at 21, maybe younger. My responsibility as an artist is to help them get past 21” –

John Cassavettes

“If everybody demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace” –

John Lennon

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” –

Martin Luther King

“I’d rather be hated for being someone I am than loved for being someone I’m not” –

Kurt Cobain

“Art is the lie that helps us understand the truth” –

Pablo Picasso

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards” –

Kierkegaard

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” –

Muhammad Ali

“ It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you” –

John Lennon

“He’s gone and he gave me a pen.. I gave him my heart; he gave me a pen” –

‘Say Anything’

“Real devils don’t need glitter” –

Salman Rushdie

“Only the shallow truly know themselves” –

Oscar Wilde

“Love seeketh not itself to please, not for itself have any care, but another gives its ease and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair” –

William Blake from ‘The Clod and The Pebble’

"Courage is found in the most unlikely of places" –

J R R Tolkien

“And I can feel the cold steel. I can feel the cold steel. And I can make a wound that won’t heal. I can make a wound that won’t heal. 38 millimetres like the police. I’m at the door with John and Yoko. Screaming love and peace. And love and peace. And love and peace. Feel like an old shoe. A re-release. Soon to be deceased. Pull the trigger! He’s a rock and roll nigger. Bigger than Jesus on a bumper sticker. Pull the trigger! Of a rock and roll nigger. He’s bigger than Jesus on a bumper sticker. My pulse is racing. My eyes are chasing. For one autograph I’ve been waiting. There’s no escaping. History is taken. Hey John! War is over, we don’t need your help! America’s making war on itself. Hey John! War is over, we don’t need your help! America’s making war on itself. 676,000 will go down in the streets. Of America. with a bullet. In the next twenty years. Twenty years. Of bitter tears. In a business of bitter tears..” –

Bono

“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind; a lover’s ears will hear the lowest sound” –

William Shakespeare

“It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities” –

J K Rowling

“Love is the mind’s strong physic and the pill, that leaves the heart sick and overturns the will” –

Thomas Middleton

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater” –

Bono

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt” -

Sylvia Plath

"Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true." -

Luigi Pirandello

"There has never been a good war or a bad peace" –

Benjamin Franklin

“How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...” -

Sylvia Plath

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting” –

Elizabeth Taylor

“It's a dangerous business going out your front door” –

J R R Tolkein

“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd” –

Edith Sitwell

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between” -

Oscar Wilde

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity” -

Albert Einstein

“There is no such thing as a lover's oath” -

Plato

“Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger” -

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it” –

Unknown Author

“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty” –

George Burns

“Like a peppermint eaten away. Will I fight, will I swagger or sway? ‘Be my lady’ she cries like a baby. See her tumbling down. See her tumbling down..” –

Velvet Goldmine

“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul” –

Marilyn Monroe

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that” -

Norman Mailer

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope” -

Aeschylus

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards” -

Oscar Wilde

“Always remember the last thing you say to people each day because what if it happened to be the last thing you ever get to say to them?” –

Martin Luther King

“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage” –

H.L. Mencken

“It is better to be small and shine from within than to be great and cast a shadow” –

Unknown Author

"In my bedroom drawing in my notebook because my hand thinks I'm an artist, but my heart knows I'm a poet" –

Bright Eyes

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult” -

Anne Rice

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” –

William Shakespeare

"Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behaviour" –

Empire Records

"You decide again that every fortune unfurled from a cookie means me and I decide that every song on the jukebox means you" -

Eireann Corrigan

“I thirst for colour, cry in pain, that my last kiss, shall be in vain” –

Unknown Author

"Love and battery life should be linked" –

Journal Usb-port

“Keep the peace within your soul, unmoved and unafraid. Face the worst that life can do, by nothing be dismayed” –

Unknown

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night” –

Edgar Allan Poe

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