/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1413864]

post your favorite life quote.
philosophy would be appreciated.

[btrxya No.1413870]

life's a bitch - my facebook friend

i wish i could

[Anonymous No.1413872]

[Anonymous No.1413880]

>>1413864
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

[Anonymous No.1413879]

'Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.'

Dale Carnegie

[Anonymous No.1413900]

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

[Anonymous No.1413906]

"Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency." — Stephen Jay Gould
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." — Stephen Jay Gould

[Anonymous No.1413922]

"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

Regardless of how you feel about the book, it's a great quote.

[Anonymous No.1413926]

But ‘Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.”

[Anonymous No.1413948]

"We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular discourse... Above all, critical thought does not submit to state power or to commands to join in the ranks marching against one or another approved enemy. Rather than the manufactured clash of civilizations, we need to concentrate on the slow working together of cultures that overlap, borrow from each other, and live together in far more interesting ways than any abridged or inauthentic mode of understanding can allow. But for that kind of wider perception we need time and patient and skeptical inquiry, supported by faith in communities of interpretation that are difficult to sustain in a world demanding instant action and reaction."

- Edward Said

[Anonymous No.1413962]

"Life is shitty, then you die."

[Anonymous No.1413965]

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that' as good as they're going to feel all day."

[Anonymous No.1413972]

"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children."

- Bobby Sands

[Anonymous No.1413973]

>>1413962
Life's a bitch and then you die
That's why we get high
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
Life's a bitch and then you die
That's why we puff la
Cause you never know when you're gonna go

[Intercostalbro No.1413984]

Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

[Anonymous No.1413990]

>>1413965

Who's that from? Please post the authors if you can guys!

[Koroviev !!bFY778Jwu68 No.1413998]

>>1413965
There is no way this is not Bukowski.

[Anonymous No.1414000]

>>1413990
attributed to Frank Sinatra mostly

[Anonymous No.1414011]

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

[Koroviev !!bFY778Jwu68 No.1414026]

>>1414011
Bruce Lee?

This is now a guess-who thread.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

[xtabyr No.1414032]

>>1414000

Cool, thanks.

>>1413998

I thought it was either Buk or Hemingway.

[Anonymous No.1414045]

"These were no soft-bellied, conservative businessmen assembled for some Masonic mumbo-jumbo; no loudmouthed, beery red-necks letting off a little ritualized steam about "the goddamn niggers"; no pious, frightened churchgoers whining for the guidance or protection of an anthropomorphic deity. These were real men, White men... the best my race has produced... combining fiery passion and icy discipline, deep intelligence and instant readiness for action... They are the vanguard of the coming New Era, the pioneers who will lead our race out of its present depths... And I am one with them!"
- The Turner Diaries

[Anonymous No.1414090]

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

[Anonymous No.1414126]

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- HDT

[Anonymous No.1414241]

Instead of worrying over things you cant fix, focus on things you can. One thing you can always change is yourself. -Jordan Sonnenblick

[Anonymous No.1414250]

“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.” - Aleister Crowely

[Anonymous No.1414257]

"Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care."
--Thomas Pynchon, "V."

[Anonymous No.1414274]

"None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever."
-Long Day's Journey Into Night

[Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ No.1414288]

not a favourite tho

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass, or even in one drop of water.

[Anonymous No.1415104]

“Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep” - Carl Sandburg

[Anonymous No.1415137]

I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison

[Anonymous No.1415142]

tolstoy:

"After my thoughts had for two years been turned in the same direction, fate seemed expressly to have brought me face to face for the first time in my life with a fact which showed me absolutely unmistakably in practice what had long been clear to me in theory, that the organization of ur society rests, not as people interested in maintaining the present order of things like to imagine, on certain principles of jurisprudence, but on simple brute force, on the murder and torture of men."

[Anonymous No.1415152]

>>1415142

our*

[Anonymous No.1415297]

I am who i am ,DEAL with it.

[Anonymous No.1415321]

"What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?"
- Soren Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.1415330]

>>1415321

explain this quote please, i don't get it.

[Anonymous No.1415336]

"Every voice part of the sound, the noise that doesn't cease. Signals resonate in time over again. The waters rise and then subside, sending waves around the world. Still waters, open skies." - Ronan Harris

[Anonymous No.1415340]

>PROVERB
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

[Anonymous No.1415346]

>“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?"

Matthew 6:25

[Anonymous No.1415360]

>>1415330
It means that existence would be a paltry thing if we could figure it out by the time we reached our twenties.

[Anonymous No.1415368]

"fuck it"- unknown

[Anonymous No.1416376]

Life doesn't always give us the joys we want.
We don't always get our hopes and dreams, and we don't always get our own way. But don't give up hope, look for the beauty around you--- in nature, in others, in yourself and believe in the love of friends,family.

[Anonymous No.1416382]

I wish one day you will miss me terribly that no matter how hard you look for me, you won't find me. Why? Because, I want you to miss me the way I'm missing.

[Anonymous No.1416383]

life is easy when you are stupid

[Anonymous No.1416394]

"Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it a llows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the "luxuriousness" of personality, losing ourselves in teh depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye." --elfriede jelinek.

[Anonymous No.1416396]

"Sometimes, carrying on - just carrying on - is a superhuman act"

Camus, The Fall

[Anonymous No.1416405]

"Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it "opening your eyes again." But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest, just endless... endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything. All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Lucky humans, who can close your minds to the endless deeps of space! You have this thing you call... boredom? That is the rarest talent in the universe! We heard a song — it went "Twinkle twinkle little star...." What power! What wondrous power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children! You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!"- Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Goddammity, Terry, I am trying to read a book to my niece, stop making me cry.

[Anonymous No.1416407]

>>1415137
ughhh one of my FAVORITE books

peerless opening two chapters

most realistic action/drama

best "american" philosophy

[Anonymous No.1416427]

>>1416394

This bitch sounds like J.O. Incandenza in "Infinite Jest" in his early years of film making.

[Anonymous No.1416445]

macy's

[blackman No.1416508]

“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.” - Aleister Crowley

[Anonymous No.1416520]

>>1413973
I was about to post this

[Anonymous No.1416527]

War does not show who is right, but who is left.

[Anonymous No.1416531]

>>1416405
I love Terry Pratchett. So many quotables in all of his good books (There's about twenty good ones, I suppose).

[Anonymous No.1416538]

"Ja, frei bin ich", sagte Karl und nichts erschien ihm wertloser.
-Kafka, Amerika/Der Verschollene

Zuweilen, allein in meiner Zelle, habe ich das Gefühl dass ich all dies nur träumte; das Gefühl: Ich könnte jederzeit aufstehen, die Hände von meinem Gesicht nehmen und mich in Freiheit umsehen, das Gefängnis ist nur in mir.
-Max Frisch, Stiller

both are german, i try to roughly translate them into english

"Yes, I am free", said Karl and nothing seemed more worthless to him.
-Kafka, Amerika

"Sometimes, alone in my cell i get the feeling that I'm only dreaming all this, the feeling, i could stand up at anytime, take my hands of my face and look around in freedom: The prison is only inside me.
-Max Frisch, I'm not Stiller!

[Anonymous No.1416540]

"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!"
- Charles Bukowski

[Anonymous No.1416542]

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be - *glorious* birds.

Harold and Maude

[Anonymous No.1416548]

"What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?"

Yeah, I've been melancholy about a lost lover recently.

[Anonymous No.1416550]

>>1416540

That's the best Bukowski quote you could come up with?

Also, what's with so many people posting entire pages from the book? Less is more, guys.

'Manuscripts don't burn' The Master and Margerita

[Anonymous No.1416552]

"The truth of the matter is this: that man lives in a fire of waters and will live eternally in the first taste." - Robert Keely

[Anonymous No.1416556]

>>1413973
>>1413973
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[Anonymous No.1416593]

"Do, or do not, there is no try" -Albus Dumbledore

[Anonymous No.1416595]

"What is not done cannot be undone."

[Anonymous No.1416599]

If you learn from a failure, then it's not really a failure.

[Anonymous No.1416602]

"That is why most people shed their wings and prefer to walk and obey the law. But not you. You go on flying. And look! You discover that you gradually begin to master your flight, that the great general force that tears you upward there is added a delicate, small force of your own, an organ, a steering mechanism."

-Hermann Hesse

[Anonymous No.1416616]

to be or not to be

[Anonymous No.1416618]

No, because it may be that he himself believes in compote.

[Anonymous No.1416633]

Infinitum nihil :3

[Anonymous No.1416646]

>>1413990

GOOGLE. DO YOU USE IT.

[blackman No.1416671]

>>1416616
I never understood why this is the only Shakespeare line people can quote

[Anonymous No.1416685]

>>1416671
cause story about Hamlet was the best of the bests

[Anonymous No.1416691]

>>1416671
Dramatic much? All the world's a stage.

[Anonymous No.1416692]

>>1416685
>>1416685
>>1416671
Superior Shakespeare quote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM

[Anonymous No.1416693]

[Anonymous No.1416721]

philosophical life quote

oxymoron detected

[Anonymous No.1416728]

"Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'em out." --Arnaud Amalric, papal legate during the Albigensian Crusade

[Anonymous No.1416809]

>>1416728
I beleive the actual quote is: "Burn them all! God shall recognize his own."

As for mine:
"While much maligned is the life dedicated to seeking pleasure, a thousand times more wretched is the life dedicated to avoiding pain." - Patenge

[Anonymous No.1417220]

>>1416691
And all the men and women merely players? They have their entrances and their exits, and one man in his time plays many parts.

[Anonymous No.1417231]

>When death crowns the ills of suffering man, what a fine consolation to be eaten by worms

[Anonymous No.1417260]

"Momma! I'm gon' smash dem guinea pigs!"
-Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rJ206ApObI

[Anonymous No.1417303]

>>1416671

>Fair is foul and foul is fair.

>Romeo? Romeo? Wherefore art though Romeo?

>I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself/ and falls on the other.

>Beware the ides of March

>There's daggers in men's smiles

>Et tu, Brute?

Okay, so I really like Macbeth. Sue me. But lots of people could recite those, except the ambition one.

[Anonymous No.1417344]

Corn is fucking delicious!


-Ghandi

[Anonymous No.1417361]

Volume! Clarity! Bass! We must have bass - Hunter s Thompson

[Anonymous No.1417375]

>>1417303
Its not even the only hamlet people quote:
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Frailty, thy name is woman
This above all — to thine own self be true;
brevity is the soul of wit
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
The lady doth protest too much,

I'm pretty sure there are more.

[High, Just as High and Third No.1417452]

>>1417375
Man sometimes I forget how much of a badass Shakespeare was.

[chunks No.1417508]

Let's do this, fuckers:

"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. " - proust

"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing." - proust

"“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew." - shakespeare - hamlet

[Anonymous No.1417733]

"All thinking people / oppose terrorism / both domestic / & international… / But one should not / be used / To cover the other" - Amiri Baraka

[Anonymous No.1417752]

What does Websters say about soul?

[Anonymous No.1418213]

>>1416396
I love this quote.

[Anonymous No.1419784]

>>1417508
>bogus shakespeare quote

It's by Arrigo Boito.

[Anonymous No.1419786]

"I can run faster horny, then you can scared!"

[Anonymous No.1419817]

>>1416407
I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Ralph Ellison