quotes

"She laughed when there was no joke, she danced when there was no music, she had no friends, though she was the friendliest person in the world." — Jerry Spinelli

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." — Edgar Allen Poe


"She wanted to die. And she wanted to live in Paris." — Gustave Flaubert


"I think it was the acid, it made me fall in love with the earth and not wear shoes" - Chloë Sevigny


"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." — Friedrich Nietzsche


"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box." –Unknown


"Everything in moderation, including moderation." — Benjamin Franklin


"Even before I had a mirror I knew who I was" — Unknown


"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see." — Duane Michals


“The worker bees can leave, the drones can fly away, the queen is their slave." — Unknown (to me at least, any help appreciated)


"But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn't have to be that way; if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does." - Jonathan Safran Foer


"I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, my cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss? I don't know. But it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me? to what great place did thinking ever bring me? i think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it." - Jonathan Safran Foer


"If you want power, true political power, tell the truth for once." - Harvey Milk portrayed by Sean Penn in "Milk"


"There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go." - Tennessee Williams