Quotes
I've been an avid quote collector for more than twenty years, hand writing them in a collection of journals. Below are some of my favorite ones, but if you'd like to share more with me, shoot me an email below!
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Since there's no particular order to this collection (that is still growing), I've attempted at adding this filter, unfortunately you can only use one button at a time, so, for example, you can't filter "Shakespeare" and "occult". It has to be one or the other.
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Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till they make a noise.
--George Crabbe, "The Maid's Story"
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause.
--James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Cruelty has a human heart,
And jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
--William Blake, Appendix to Songs of Innocence and of Experience. A Divine Image
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
--Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream
He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red.
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead
--Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Something was dead in each of us,
and what was dead was Hope.
--Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.
--Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
At first you may think I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
--T. S. Elliot, The Naming of Cats
There are two gates of Sleep, one of which it is held is made of horn and by it real ghosts have easy egress; the other shining fashioned of gleaming white ivory, but deceptive are the visions the Underworld sends that way to the light.
--Virgil