"Every now and then,
I realize that most people have lived
the same kind of lives that we have,
even though centuries separate them from us
There cannot be two skies"

- Dak'kon; PlaneScape Torment


"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster
For when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

- Nietzsche


"No man knows how bad he is -
till he has tried very hard to be good."

- C.S. Lewis


"The truth always lies in-between two stories."


"He who makes a beast of himself,
gets rid of the pain of being a man"

- Hunter S. Thompson


"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain
Time, to die"

- Blade Runner (1982)


"In vain I do call through this dancing myriad
Of relinquished emotions, frozen fragments of time
For the moment has passed, - now lost in that swirl -
Splintered shards of time's reflection -
Reflections for the winter of my soul"

- Karl Edward Wagner


"He who laughs when things go wrong,
Has just thought of someone to blame it on"

- Benny Hill


"He who lives without folly,
Is less wise than he thinks"

- Francois Rochefoulauld


"We must laugh before we are happy,
For fear that we die before we laugh at all"

- Bruyere


"A man must choose between loving women, and knowing them"

- Lenclos


"Life can only be understood backwards;
But it can only be lived forwards"

- Kirkegaard


"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people,
Than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you"

- Dale Carnegie


"Initiative comes to those who wait"

- A Clockwork Orange


"Love is like a snowmobile, racing across the arctic tundra
Suddenly it flips over pinning you beneath it"

- Matt Groening


"When they give you two choices,
Take the third"

- Anarchist Graffiti


"You can't loose,
If you throw the race"

- Adam Ant "Ants Invasion"


"Is madness love? If so then say that Phaedra loves,
For she is mad"

- Jean Racine "Phaedra"


"Did you ever stop to think -
The loudest sound in the universe will be the last heartbeat"

- Max Headroom


"Assumption is the root of all ignorance"

- Karin Friedman


"As you are I was,
As I am you will be"

- Unknown


"Creativity is not set by the norms of society
But by your ability to overcome these norms
And let your individuality show through"

- Unknown


Medvedenko: "Why do you wear black all the time?"
Masha: "I am mourning for my life, I am unhappy"

- Anton Chekhov; "The Sea Gull"


"I hope for nothing
I fear nothing
I am free"

- Kikos Kazantzakis; (inscribed on tomb)


"Look at that:
Ordinary fucking people.  I hate them"

- Repo Man


"Love
So this is how it ends
Insidious, I crawl
Into your night thoughts
Arise, bastard and burn for me"

- Karin Friedman


"It's funny how people leave;
When you open the door
And point the way"

- Joy Pixley


"Lots of fun still to come!
Many great jugs to drink, and far suns to see;
Many females to love, and enemies to kill,
And whole universes to see and smell and taste
Plenty of time to be dead after!"

- Earthblood


"Not everything is always what it seems,
But -
Everything is always exactly what it is"

- Buckaroo Banzai


"Dark thoughts
Sweep across the landscapes of my mind"

- Christopher Colton