/lit/ - Literature

I liked that pic OP, I had for a long time a great vendetta against Dawkins because I had assumed he was nothing but openly hostile, doing more harm than good for his cause. Then I realized that I was the one who was not listening, and had confused passion for hatred.

My favorite quote ever, because it inspires you to live your life:

""I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
...
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau

Look past page 0 and you will find that this thread exists already.

>>1467032

Walden is just filled with stuff like that. It is an amazing book, and I love him and it so much.

Yes.. I was forced to read it when I was in high school and hated it. Then I had to read it again in my later years in college and I realized what an idiot I was.

You can flip to a random page in Walden and you'll find several sentences that are quotable.

>>1466913

Fuck if that's not the stupidest thing I've ever read from him.

The man has convinced me that he's just an elaborate troll to discredit actual atheists.

this is my personal motto, the one favourite quote of mine that i aim to live my life by.

bitches ain't shit, but hoes and tricks' - Dr Dre

helped me through some hard times

>>1467473
This is why you are a bad poster. This has nothing to do with literature. It is some /r9k/-refugee waste-of-electron anal spewage.

You claimed to want to improve the board by stopping bad posts. Yours is a bad post. Don't post again if you can't post about books.

>>1467477
>not literature
>from one of the greatest pieces of art created in the 20th century, a perfectly crafted rap album by a master of lyrical trickery.

2deep4u

>>1467484
>>>/mu/

Act like an adult on this board, can't you?

>>1467477
>Quote thread
>Complain that brownbear isn't posting about /lit/

Trolololol

>>1467485

i am.
However the origional post asked for a 'favourite quotes' thread.

that is one of my favourites.

>>1467487

Hey Brownbear. You forgot your trip.

>>1467487
>Quote thread on a literature board
>All 2 quotes are from literature
>tripfaggot posts the dumbest most misogynist line from a rap album

>>1467487
I sense sum samefag.

>>1467495
>calls samefag
>doesn't check the post times

are you seriously this retarded?

>>1467499

>mfw proxy

>>1467500
>mfw you have no face
>mfw i have no face

>>1467473
>>1467477
>>1467484
>>1467485
>>1467487
>>1467489
>>1467490
>>1467493
>>1467495
>>1467499
>>1467501
>>1467501
Samefag.

>>1467503
>dale_cooper_thumbs_up.jpg

>>1467503

Hey Brownbear. You forgot your trip again.

>>1467477

so edgy, so deep

Lānam fēcit, domīt mānsit.
She made wool; she remained at home.

Silentium est sīgnum sapientae et loquācitās est signum stultitiae.
Silence is a sign of wisdom, and talking is a sign of stupidity.

Quid est somnus gelidae nisi mortis imago?
What is sleep unless an image of cold death?

Arma cēdant togae.
Let arms yield to the toga.

Īra intitium in sāniae.
Anger is the beginning of insanity.

Nōn quia difficilia sunt, nōn audēmus; sed quia nōn audēmus, difficilia sunt.
Not since there are difficulties, we don’t dare; but since we don’t dare, there are difficulties. Seneca

Errāre est hūmānum, persevērāre diabolicum.
To error is human, to persevere is evil.
Seneca

Fāta viam invenient.
Fates will find a way.
Aenid

Quaerite et inveniētis.
Seek and you will find.

Servā mē, servābōtē.
You serve me; I will serve you.
Petronius

Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
Enough eloquence, not enough wisdom.
Sallust

Nōn est enim arbor bona quae farit frūctūs malōs neque arbor mala faciēns frūctum bonum.
It is not for good trees to produce bad fruit, neither is it for bad trees to produce good fruit. Bible

Omnia scīre volunt omnēs, sed discere nōlunt.
Everyone wants to know all things, but they do not wish to learn.
A medieval saying

Stultum est timēre quod vītāre nōn potes.
It is stupid to fear what you are not able to avoid.
Publilius Syrus

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” – William Faulkner
“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.” – William Faulkner

“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” – Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (p. 13)
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” – Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon (1932)

“Testicles? Bullocks, more like.” – Hugh Laurie on A Bit of Fry and Laurie

"Most of the problems in my life have to do with my confusing what I want and what I need." - David Foster Wallace in an interview

“I’ve always believed that you cannot call yourself a real reader until you have read some of Faulkner.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The universe is expanding. That should help ease the traffic.” – Steven Wright in When the Leaves Blow Away

I will sodomize you and face-fuck you,
Cocksucker Aurelius and bottom-man Furius,
You who think that I'm a pussy
Because of my delicate verses.
It's right for the devoted poet
To be chaste himself, but it's not
Necessary for his verses to be so.
Verses which then have taste and charm,
If they are delicate and sexy,
And when they can incite an itch,
And I don't mean for boys, but in
Those hairy old men who can't get their dicks up.
You, because you have read of my thousand kisses,
You think I'm a pussy?
I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.

inb4 arse full of farts

>>1467521

no

>>1467511

fuck yeah, dulce et decorum est.

>>1467470
You're an idiot. How on Earth is talking about the vast variety of life that has ever existed stupid?

>>1466913

This quote is actually why I'm against abortion. I don't think it's murder or anything; I just think, "Damn... there goes another potential cure for cancer...."

>>1467567

When he's doing the talking.

>>1467598

Are you also against menstruation?

i have that quote on spanish OP

El individuo ha luchado siempre para no ser absorbido por la tribu.
Si lo intentas, a menudo estarás solo, y a veces asustado.
Pero ningún precio es demasiado alto por el privilegio de ser uno mismo.

>>1467619

don't forget male masturbation!

>>1467647
BUT IT HAS TO BE RELEASED EVENTUALLY IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU MASTURBATE.

>>1467567

>You're an idiot. How on Earth is talking about the vast variety of life that has never existed stupid?

FTFY

I'm still convinced that he is deliberately trolling atheists. It's fucking painful to watch.

>>1467671
It's like he's against religious fixations on a being, and all of his followers worship him like a god. the irony.

>>1467637
Thanks. I can read Spanish, so I understand it.

>>1467671
Trolling, making money... must be nice for there to be no difference.

>>1467511

Catullus was a total bro.

This thread needs more actual quotes.

>>1466913

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Nietzsche

Not sure if that's the quote you meant, but it seems to be in the same ballpark.

> I read one a while back that was attributed to Nietzsche, but I lost it. Something about resisting the influence of society.

yeah, thats why these threads suck. And I don't mean people not being able to quote correctly, but the fucking content of the quotes.

thats what you get when the educational facilities of a whole country are tiled with motivational bullshit...

>>1467889
That's the one, thanks.

"...there is no higher happiness than to be able to crawl on one's stomach, out of the camp, blind, one's legs amputated, and to die in freedom, even if only ten yards from the cursed barbed wire."

"Men must live & create. Live to the point of tears." -Albert Camus.

>>1466913
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vuu05USEhlKYhZ0XH

>>1467032
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vQx0MKjuD9OsYfE73

>>1467473
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vj4vkYSc5YH56pQjA

>>1467511
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vC2YFDUIpv0QfcRvd

>>1468212
LIKE BOOM YO MY DRAMATIC MEXICAN AMERICAN VOICE.
IM LIKE YO DONT DO IT FOR BRITISH QUOTES IT DOESNT WORK BRUV

>>1467637
http://vocaroo.com/?media=veYu0I2XkE4BaBiLG

>>1467889
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vc5UWMMt1MUWQUM7i

>>1468123
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vTdAmdX6OwQ20sEYQ

>>1468124
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vAeN1TPemb51wfPYD

>>1468224
http://vocaroo.com/?media=v1BU6XjKKuYAgm7CD

wat

>>1468228
WOO STOFERIN

>>1468233
sorry i learned my manners in /b/

Quotes and thread ruined.

>>1468228
faggot! :OOOO

Ehh so be it. Can't win em all.

http://vocaroo.com/?media=v9kZ7sydzW1t4JBlp

I attribute this quote, and a great PD to keeping me out of a jail for year at the low point of my life.

This thread enhanced for you by Retards Inc.

Bump

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotations.

/poker_face

>>1468950
I don't think this thread is dedicated to random, mindless quotations; rather, to provocative quotations. That's like saying an original book is worth more than other people's books. It's no reason not to read.

>>1468975
:)
>meta
>We are in agreement in all but my intentions.

Finished when hes defeated. Hes finished when he quits. Democracy is.
Justice everywhere. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be.
Not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since.
Complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
Of life--that cetainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a.
Where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of.
Made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are.
Must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of.
Bright side. Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I.
Because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they.
Word when a diminutive one will do. Never wrestle a pig. You both get.
Start sentences with a conjunction. And one man in his time plays many.
Strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business.
Owning yourself. The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the ocean.
Superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the.
Violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it.
Patronizes human beings. Categorizing fear is calming. Cats are put on.
A mans ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy.
Will side with you when you are in the right. The reasonable man.
Awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, buy you are not going to explore.

>oh web-box project, you so crazy