That's what they said...

I'm a sucker for quotes. Movie quotes, literary quotes, music quotes...doesn't matter, I collect them all. I guess I just like knowing that though I may feel like I'm unique in experiencing certain emotions or ideas that I can't quite enunciate, there are others that did the work for me. It's a comfort, really, reading these.

I decided to gather a collection of quotes that I personally find meaningful. Some, I can relate to my life or my outlook, some move me, and others I just find interesting. Have a gander!

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her (or him). -Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

In life, the worst disasters come from passion - Euripides, Media

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention? - Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

V: [as "The Count of Monte Cristo" ends] Did you like it?
Evey Hammond: Yeah. But it made me feel sorry for Mercedes.
V: Why?
Evey Hammond: Because he cared more about revenge than he did about her. - V for Vendetta

I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you. Valerie. - V for Vendetta

I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love... And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man... A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget. - Evey, V for Vendetta

Nino is late. Amelie can only see two explanations. 1 - he didn't get the photo. 2 - before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. The cops gave chase. They got away... but he caused a crash. When he came to, he'd lost his memory. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. There he met some Afghan raiders who too him to steal some Russian warheads. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. Amelie refuses to get upset for a guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy. - Amelie

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her - anonymous

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. - Gloria Steinhem

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Stephan Grellet

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed - Chaucer

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. - Giuseppe Mazzini

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. - May Sarton

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there. - Bob Marley

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it. - DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. - Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. Try to hold me in your mind, at some quiet times, as ardent and sincere in this one thing. The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn--the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you. O Miss Manette, when the little picture of a happy father's face looks up in yours, when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you! - Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities (my favorite book of all time)

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her. - Charles Darnay, A Tale of Two Cities

And I listen for the whisper
of your sweet insanity
while I formulate denials
of your effect on me - A Perfect Circle, The Stranger

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." - John Greenleaf Whittier

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anaïs Nin

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

I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER". - Groucho Marx

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. - Groucho Marx

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. - Groucho Marx




And I'm sure I have more in my arsenal...