Favorite Quotes

[real human being]

So, I've recently started collecting quotes I like from various movies, songs, etc. Here's what I have so far (and feel free to post your favorites as well).


Even though I am no better than a beast, don't I have the right to live?

- Oldboy


I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair

- Hurt, Nine Inch Nails


And when you wake up
Everything is gonna be fine
I guarantee that you'll wake
In a better place, in a better time

- A Better Place, A Better Time, Streetlight Manifesto


The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost.
The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed.
Since beginningless time darkness thrives in the void.
But always yields to purifying light.

- Lion Turtle, ATLA


Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source.
True humility is the only antidote to shame.

- Iroh, ATLA


I believe people can change their lives if they want to.
I believe in second chances.

- Iroh, ATLA


Hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane.

- Max, Mad Max


Where must we go? We who wander this wasteland in search of our better selves?

- The First History Man, Mad Max


Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

- Schindler's List

 

[Makoto]

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source.
True humility is the only antidote to shame.

- Iroh, ATLA

this got me.

 

[Bluebells]

One of my recent favourites is from the poem "Prayer before birth" by Louis MacNiece. He talks of what he wants before he is born and the last line is so simple though I love it; "Otherwise kill me"
And Virginia Woolf's "What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you." Hauntingly beautiful

 

[psp3000]

"make it make it make it don't fake it make it make it goddamit come on bitch"

- Trash Humpers (2009)

"To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part."

- Slacker (1990)

 

[Pluto]

 

[Superdeterminist]

"For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause."

-Hamlet

"If there is a god,
He will have to beg my forgiveness."

-Unidentified WWII death camp prisoner

"That thousands have lived in happiness and joy, would never do away with the anguish of one individual."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[Username1359751]

All the quotes from the beginning and end of Criminal Minds episodes. I don't know why they haven't printed a book of them...

 

[One day too late]

"Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard. It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred." - 50 Cent

 

[meoka<3]

Now, I don't know if this is cringey or not, but my favorite quote is actually from a character in one of my favorite fantasy series.

"To me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is you, and not the state of you."
-Xie Lian

 

[Username1359751]

"Nice playin' football bitch!"

-Nigel Gruff
"The Replacements" movie

 

[Onelegman]

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man"
- Patrick Rothfuss (writer)
- The wise man's fear (book)

 

[daocreator]

"one must imagine Sisyphus happy". Albert Camus

 

[lacrimosa]

"Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent.

But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow and blessed thee for it.

Lo! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it.

I would fain bestow and distribute, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Therefore must I descend into the deep: as thou doest in the evening, when thou goest behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star!

Like thee must I GO DOWN, as men say, to whom I shall descend.

Bless me, then, thou tranquil eye, that canst behold even the greatest happiness without envy!

Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden out of it, and carry everywhere the reflection of thy bliss!"

- Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue section 1.

 

[Aergia]

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
—Socrates

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement—not only with others, but with ourselves."
—Eric Hoffer

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
—Marie Curie

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool."
—Richard Feynman

 

[mikgazer6]

"Half the time I see my best self as a playa who know what he deserve
Then I wake up on the next day unable to relate to the meaning of the word
The unlimited worlds in this one Earth, its work and its worth
Said that's why I motivate my love of life undermined by, as it were, feeling insecure"

Hardcore punk lyrics. Half the lyrics on the album are from the writer's personal recovery and have done more for me than any help from therapists, friends, and family lmao

 

[Username1359751]

All (or most) of the quotes in the episodes of Criminal Minds.
Wish there was a printed book/journal version.

 

[One day too late]

"You're always smiling, real friendly like, but your smile is so empty, it hurts to watch you. It's like you're hurting like crazy and grinning to hide it" - Nicholas D. Wolfwood, Trigun

 

[Throwawayacc3]

I'll post them in gifs. Much better context:

Tropic Thunder - all the dialogue is top tier.
21/22 Jump Street - the delivery of lines is amazing.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park - more serious in tone but a lot of dread and memorable stuff. Characters making sacrifices :(
Team America: World Police - every single is beyond god tier. It'll be 9/11 times 2356…. My god that's… I don't even know what this is!

NOBODY DOES…..

Cabin in the Woods - homage to all horror movies. The scenes with these two is gold every time. Especially with the Merman lol. .

I could do this for hours just picked a few otherwise the thread would be cooked.

 

[LONE WOLF.]

Tell me bat's, Have you ever danced with the devil under the pale moon light? "The joker" Batman 1989.

 

[Circles]

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
-Emil Cioran

 

[Steff1337]

"This all shall pass, but than it's gonna be too late."

 

[damienlerone03]

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[hawkshorizon]

"The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard."

W.M. Maughm, The Razor's Edge

 

[Steff1337]

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

 

[Eternal Eyes]

"Dangerous knowledge is still knowledge and therefore useful. Usually turns out to be the most useful, in my experience." - Neloth, Skyrim.

 

[Sunset Limited]

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."

- Agent Smith - Matrix

 

[Imagined_Euphoria]

"I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs, a very endearing sight, I'm sure you'll agree. And even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters, who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."
― Terry Pratchett

 

[Rust]

I collected a couple of quotes a few years back when I still read stuff:

The study of the world had taught me nothing, and yet I had lost the purity of ignorance.

- François-René de Chateaubriand, René

Happy are those who have ended their voyage without leaving port, and have not, as I have, dragged out useless days on this earth!

- François-René de Chateaubriand, René

pain is not a malady one exhausts as quickly as one exhausts pleasure.

- François-René de Chateaubriand, René

Like all men he had acquired virtue through adversity

- François-René de Chateaubriand, Atala

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.

- Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

- Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

To appeal for help to any human being—I could expect nothing from that expedient. Supposing I complained to my father or my mother, or to the police, the government—I wondered if in the end I would not be argued into silence by someone in good graces with the world, by the excuses of which the world approved.

- Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

- Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

I tried to only post the shorter ones. Half of these are from well known books, but hopefully someone finds them interesting, or at least finds humor in opening fruit shops.

 

[PeacefulJourney]

• "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi
• "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
• "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon

 

[human909]

"The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."

~ Kevin Carter