[NF] Quote Thread: Express your feelings or thoughts with a quote

[CuriousFeeling]

Jabberwocky- Lewis Carroll

"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One two! One two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe"

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"There's nothing you can do
that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but
you can learn how to play
the game.
It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you
can learn how to be you in
time.
It's easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need."
- The Beatles, "All You Need is Love"

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)

Can't you feel our souls ignite
Shedding ever changing colours, in the darkness of the fading night,
Like the river joins the ocean, as the germ in a seed grows
We have finally been freed to get back home.

There's an angel standing in the sun, and he's crying with a loud voice,
"This is the supper of the mighty One",
The Lord of Lords,
King of Kings,
Has returned to lead His children home,
To take them to the new Jerusalem."

- Genesis, "Supper's Ready"

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"And in the light of a cold grey dawn
When all seemed lost and you felt so forlorn
You sensed a warmth surround you
And now you find you’re
No longer on your own

It’s impossible unbelievable news
It’s impossible but it’s true

You never thought you would ever be here
You never even dared to hope you would ever be here
In a world you used to dream of
And watch from afar

After all of the time gone by
Searching fruitlessly asking why
It’s hard to stop the trying
To truly realize

That all the pain all that’s gone before
Lies behind and you can close the door
In the past forever
No need to worry
No need to fear at all"

- Tony Banks "An Island in the Darkness"

 

[changeling]

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body… Walt Whitman

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"I wouldn't if i were you
thank god we're not
my finger shoots straight and true
that shows a lot

just try it on if you dare
so tough so free
my shoulder has chips to spare
save one for me

whenever these bars close before me
i'll tear them down
with one fit of temper
it's hot head, hot groove,
don't look, don't move

don't let me out of my cage boy
'cos i might kill somebody
don't let me out of my cage boy
'cos i might thrill somebody

whatever their name may be
who dares, who dares?
nobody does that to me
who cares, who cares?


whenever these four walls close me in
i'll knock them down
with one flick of my wrist
it's so mean, so cute, don't
scream, don't shoot.

don't let me out of my cage boy
'cos i might kill somebody
don't let me out of my cage boy
'cos i might thrill somebody

i'm counting from one to ten
one two, one two
no telling what happens then
it's up to you

it could be love or it cold be war
what will you choose
it depends what i want to
get out of my cage for
choose war, you lose

whenever the roof falls down on me
i'll come right through
with one beat of my heart
it's you win, you bet,
don't cry, don't fret

don't let me out of my cage boy
'cos i might kill somebody
don't let me out of my cage boy
'cos i might thrill somebody"

- Nik Kershaw, "Don't Let Me Out of my Cage"

 

[Vasilisa]

To ____________


There is no reason
for me to keep counting
how long it has been
since you were here
alive one morning

as though I were
letting out the string
of a kite one day at a time
over my finger
when there is no string


W.S. Merwin

 

[Turtledove]

"No one can make you inferior without your consent."~Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"While you see a chance, take it... find romance, make it..."

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"Mystic rhythms
Capture my thoughts
Carry them away
Mysteries of night, escape the light of day

Mystic rhythms
Under northern lights
Or a canopy of stars
We feel the push and pull of restless rhythms from afar."
- Rush, "Mystic Rhythms"

"There are only dreams like any other
There are only hopes
And beliefs one like any other

There are only dreams like any other
(Worth living but not dying for)
Living but not dying for, not killing for
There are only dreams like any other
(Like any other)

To all of those
Who think that they know
All I can say
Yes, all I can say

One man's joy makes another man weep
Nothing you can do is ever gonna change it
One man's saint is another man's fool
One man's hot is another man's cool

There are only dreams like any other
There are only hopes
And beliefs, one like any other
There are only dreams like any other"
- Genesis "One Man's Fool"

 

[typologywhore]

"Mystic rhythms
Capture my thoughts
Carry them away
Mysteries of night, escape the light of day..."

Ne~, CuriousFeeling, you intrigue me so much...such an interestingly-flavoured INFJ, it's really cool -shy smile- I wanna investigate you!


ATM I'm loving Blue Stahli's 'Takedown' (and, indeed, Blue Stahli in general):

I break through
What you view
Just to counteract
Kamikaze crash dive when I fight back

What ya gonna do
What ya gonna say
When I wipe the smile right off of your face?

Right now!
Break out!
Takedown!

I wanna take you down
I wanna take you out
I wanna be the one to break your dignity
And all your empty pride
Will rot the hole inside
Bet you'd make a beautiful suicide

Don't speak, doublethink who you push around
You're mistaken
If you're thinking that I'll back down

What ya gonna do
What ya gonna say
When I give back all the hate you made?

Right now!
Break out!
Takedown!

I wanna take you down
I wanna take you out
I wanna be the one to break your dignity
And all your empty pride
Will rot the hole inside
Bet you'd make a beautiful suicide

It might sound weird, especially just judging on the lyrics alone, but I find this song thoroughly uplifting. It strikes such a chord with me.The mood is energising, confrontational, raw, exultant

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"I must've dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street.

Now did you read the news today
They say the danger's gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
There burning into the night.

There's too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can't you see
This is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

Ooh Superman where are you now
When everything's gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.

This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

I remember long ago -
Ooh when the sun was shining
Yes and the stars were bright
All through the night
And the sound of your laughter
As I held you tight
So long ago -

I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know, we'll never keep.

Too many men
There's too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can't you see
This is a land of confusion.

Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for.

This is the world we live in
And these are the names we're given
Stand up and let's start showing
Just where our lives are going to."
- Genesis "Land of Confusion"

 

[CuriousFeeling]

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

 

[typologywhore]

Waves turn to grey,
Life in the shade,
A violent cloud,
And that's on USA;
Bad moon's on the rise,
Window's in the sky,
I'm just tryin' to find
A mountain I can climb...

-The Strokes, Machu Picchu

 

[Tyrinth]

"Lies are fine, I don't care, for we are the correct ones here, and therefore we will completely crush your deeply sinful immoralities." - Kagamine Rin, Antichlorobenzene

(Actually, it's probably more accurately a paraphrase than a quote seeing as how its a translation *shrug*(I doubt it's correct to cite the Vocaloid as the artist, but I'm too lazy to look up who wrote it))

 

[CuriousFeeling]

"You can fool yourself
You can cheat until you're blind
You can cut your heart
It can happen

You can mend the wires
You can feed the soul apart
You reach
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually

It's a constant fight
A constant fight
You're pushing the needle to the red
Black and white
Who knows who's right
No substitute you're born you're dead
Fly by night
Created out of fantasy
Our destinations call

Look up - Look down
Look out - Look around
Look up - Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride

It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually

As you happen to say
It can happen today
As it happens
It happens in every way

This world I like
We architects of life
A song a sigh
Developing words that linger
Through fields of green through open eyes
This for us to see

Look up - Look down
Look out - Look around
So look up - Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride

It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually

As you happen to say
It can happen today
As it happens
It happens in every way

As you happen to see
It will happen to be
Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere

Solo

Look up - Look down
There's a crazy world outside
We're not about to lose our pride

It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually

As you happen to see
It will happen to be
Nothing happens to nowhere and nowhere

You can fool yourself
You can cheat until you're blind
You can cut your heart

You can fool yourself It can happen to you
You can cheat until you're blind It can happen to me

You can cut your heart It can happen to eveyone eventually
As you happen to say
It can happen today
As it happens
It happens in every way

You can mend the wires
You can feed the soul apart
You can touch your life
You can bring your soul alive
It can happen to you
It can happen to me
It can happen to everyone eventually

As you happen to say
It can happen today
As it happens
It happens in every way"

- Yes, "It Can Happen"

 

[typologywhore]

"I'm in love with the feeling
Of pressure to the ceiling;
We come with intention
To face my opposition;
Get raw when it's time
To lay it on the line
To the walls where we're taking it...

(...Take it higher take it higher
Til the roof is on fire;
Take it higher take it higher,
Let's burn it up....)

I've got a bad case of turning it up
It's getting cold in here so fire it up
I've got a bad case of turning it up
It's getting cold in here, so somebody fire it up!
Come on and fire it up!"

-Fire It Up, Thousand Foot Krutch

 

[Beargryllz]

"Work is the curse of the drinking class"

- Oscar FUCKING Wilde

What a brilliant mind

 

[Vasilisa]

The way I keep in touch with the world is very gingerly because the world touches too hard.

Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

 

[CuriousFeeling]

Exile- Harold Hart Crane

My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands, --
No, -- nor my lips freed laughter since 'farewell',
And with the day, distance again expands
Voiceless between us, as an uncoiled shell.

Yet, love endures, though starving and alone.
A dove's wings clung about my heart each night
With surging gentleness, and the blue stone
Set in the tryst-ring has but worn more bright.