Quotes that you use

[Anonymous No.15381241]

In daily conversations, phone calls, literary projects, etc? Maybe I'll see that unremembered quote that I stored in the back of my eyes.

[Anonymous No.15381256]

>>15381241
I quote the line about "the beam in your eye" at people whenever they try to criticize anything. It absolutely fucking enrages them lol

[Anonymous No.15382671]

>>15381241
"Imagine my surprise when I
Blink my eyes and I
Realize that I've been talking to you"
But I'll change that last non-rhyming bit to whatever surprised me in the story I'm sharing at that time
>>15381256
Always good :)

[Anonymous No.15382679]

>>15381241
>I had a feeling that, like Lorenz, we were all jumping out of windows, and sooner or later we were bound to crash. At the moment we were, so to speak, suspended in mid-air.
>I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.

[Anonymous No.15382741]

>>15381241
>How but in custom and in ceremony, are innocence and beauty born?

[Anonymous No.15382771]

>>15381241
“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”
used that in a convo once when someone commented on how I’m a mysterious kind of guy hehe

[Anonymous No.15382784]

I have the last line of the Great Gatsby memorized.

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past"

I also vaguely memorized the last line of Herodotus' Histories

"And so it is, that those in the poor terrain rule those in the better"

Those are some pretty important quotes right there, hmmmmmm. Anything else?

Not off the top of my head, no. :3

[Anonymous No.15382792]

>>15382771
That was a woman who said that to you wasn't it?

[Anonymous No.15382802]

>>15382792
Yeah

[Anonymous No.15382808]

i have to go return some videotapes

[Anonymous No.15382822]

>>15382802
I'm not a very social guy so I might be very wrong on this but it seems to me that you could have said something better on the occasion. Assuming the woman was hitting on you or trying to get to know you, you basically called her dumb for thinking you're mysterious. And I think women like mysterious men. I personally would have said something like "Aren't we all, to an extent?". What do you think?

[Anonymous No.15382827]

>>15382822
You might be overthinking it. Women don't care what you say, just how you say it.

[Anonymous No.15382828]

I have memorised the entirety of Eärendil The Mariner, can always quote it

[Anonymous No.15382853]

>>15382822
You're overthinking wayyyy too much, normal people don't analyse such a simple conversation to such an extent, that's kind of autistic. I know most of the time it's not good to aspire to act 'normally', but in this case it probably is.

[Anonymous No.15382871]

>>15382827
This is the most important rule an autist will learn in his time.

[Anonymous No.15382884]

I always read Bataille to people over the phone.
Some like it.

[Anonymous No.15382889]

>>15382679
>our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic were the friends we made along the way.

[Anonymous No.15382890]

>>15382853
You are a woman aren't you?

[Anonymous No.15382904]

>>15382671
Great fuckin lyric. Haven't touched that guy's stuff in years.

[Anonymous No.15383006]

>>15381241
>"Alright, I'm going to work."
From 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'

[Anonymous No.15383069]

>>15382827
back to pol with you, incel

[Anonymous No.15383186]

>>15381241
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

[Anonymous No.15383371]

>>15383006

[Anonymous No.15383429]

I quote things all the time. There's a passage in Wind in the Willows where Toad has just escaped from prison disguised as a washerwoman and gets picked up in a car and manages to get them to let him drive it. (He was sent to prison for dangerous driving.)

---

Toad eagerly scrambled into the seat vacated by the driver, took the steering-wheel in his hands, listened with affected humility to the instructions given him, and set the car in motion, but very slowly and carefully at first, for he was determined to be prudent.

The gentlemen behind clapped their hands and applauded, and Toad heard them saying, ‘How well she does it! Fancy a washerwoman driving a car as well as that, the first time!’

Toad went a little faster; then faster still, and faster.

He heard the gentlemen call out warningly, ‘Be careful, washerwoman!’ And this annoyed him, and he began to lose his head.

The driver tried to interfere, but he pinned him down in his seat with one elbow, and put on full speed. The rush of air in his face, the hum of the engines, and the light jump of the car beneath him intoxicated his weak brain. ‘Washerwoman, indeed!’ he shouted recklessly. ‘Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes! Sit still, and you shall know what driving really is, for you are in the hands of the famous, the skilful, the entirely fearless Toad!’

---

This passage impressed me deeply when I was about ten, and from then on, whenever I was in any vehicle and I felt the driver needed a bit of advice, I would shout out from the back seat BE CAREFUL, WASHERWOMAN!

[Anonymous No.15383496]

My favorite line that I just rediscovered is, "Let's get this show on the road!". Reminds me of those traveling circuses which makes me laugh because I can call whatever the situation is a circus without people catching on.

[Anonymous No.15383505]

My mantra is "I know that I don't know" by Socrates.
Also this one (dunno who said it): "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain."

[Anonymous No.15383507]

>>15382771
>when someone commented on how I’m a mysterious kind of guy hehe

I get this from girls I've hooked up with from time to time. I don't feel like I am a particularly mysterious person, though perhaps I hold my tongue more than the average guy.

[Anonymous No.15383511]

>>15383496
I like to say "Elvis has left the building" for similar reasons. Elvis was such a larger than life figure (unfortunately, quite literally toward the end of his life) I get a good chuckle each time I think of him. I think we can all smile when we think about Elvis.

[Anonymous No.15383596]

>>15383511
In what kind of situation do you say it?

[Anonymous No.15383619]

>>15383596

I use it to announce to the room that I have taken a big dump

[Anonymous No.15383630]

>>15381241
Я BAC EБAЛ CPATЬ HA HAC ГOBHA. Я BAC TOГO EГA ГOДO.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.15383646]

"I know I want and do not have what I want.", either in Italian or my mother tongue, in conversations when unattainable things come up, sometimes at least. At this point it's become akin to "such is life" but with a bit more weight added to it.

[Anonymous No.15383657]

"that whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent"

And

"the limits of my language are the limits of my world"

Both Wittgenstein but have never actually read anything if his. Where should I start?

[Anonymous No.15383670]

>>15383429
Based

[Anonymous No.15383676]

You want something done right? You gotta do it yourself.

[Anonymous No.15383684]

>>15383596
When my ex girlfriend was pregnant a while back we ran through a bunch of potential baby names and one of them was Elvis, which we both entertained in a sort of joking way. Anyway, we decided not to go with it, but one morning she woke me up in tears to tell me that she had miscarried. I remember the sun was not quite up yet, so the bedroom was an almost surreal blue. And then when she was weeping by herself in the bathroom, I said a little "Elvis has left the building" to myself and made myself laugh, but I don't think she heard.

[Anonymous No.15383702]

>>15381256
I misunderstood that quote for the longest time to be about being empathetic and self-sacrificing to a fault. Having a splinter in the eye must suck, but having an entire beam in your eye must be even worse.

[Anonymous No.15383709]

>>15383676
cringe

[Anonymous No.15383710]

>"A, she was a hooer. B, the kid wasn't even mine."
>"You fucking queers!"
> "Quasimodo predicted all of this."
Wrong board?

[Anonymous No.15383895]

>>15382890
>>15382853
>no answer
Yes you are.

[Anonymous No.15384045]

>>15382822
>you basically called her dumb for thinking you're mysterious. And I think women like mysterious men
Actually, he solidified her assumption. His choice of quote is a very peculiar way of responding, and the place from which it came is a mystery.

But it depends on the situation, the girl, your relationship with that girl, and of course, how you act

[Anonymous No.15384055]

>>15383710
>I was doing a lot of coke

[Anonymous No.15384061]

>>15383684
Always look on the bright side of life. What's worth living for if you can't even make a joke about your miscarried child

[Anonymous No.15384083]

I quote this monologue from Twin Peaks whenever someone tries to beat me up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww-88rwt4ms

[Anonymous No.15384516]

>>15381241
He didndu nuffin!

[Anonymous No.15384562]

At the end of "The Joint Is Jumpin'" by Fats Waller, there's the sound of a police raid, and Fats says "DON'T GIVE YOUR RIGHT NAMES, NO NO NO" as the song fades out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv2ktr-yc3o

I usually quote this in any situation that involves official forms.

[Anonymous No.15384575]

>>15384083
your path is a strange and difficult one

[Anonymous No.15385761]

if you ain't outta control you ain't in control

[Anonymous No.15385775]

>>15384083
that is so god damned cringe. is Lynch the biggest hack of all time?

[Anonymous No.15385837]

>>15381241

[Anonymous No.15385844]

>>15385837
tireboy's complexion is comical. also an ominous thing for him to be holding

[Anonymous No.15386403]

a few people I know have been worried about catching General Tso's Sneezer and I've sent them the phrase "fortune favors bravery" a few times, its from a song

[Anonymous No.15386451]

>>15385775
Made me reply, but you're a soulless creature bereft of basic contextual understanding.

[Anonymous No.15386696]

>You have failed me. Completely and utterly.

[Anonymous No.15386851]

>>15383496
>>15383511
>>15383684
lmao

[Anonymous No.15387327]

>>15386696
based and trayapilled

[Anonymous No.15387606]

>But the strong man is strongest when alone.
Wilhelm Tell by Schiller, Akt I, Szene III. Read it first in a Donald Duck comic some 15 years ago though and I use it ever since. Most of the time I use it as a joke when I don't want help from someone.

[Anonymous No.15389363]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.15389431]

>>15383630
cимпли бaceд

[Anonymous No.15389449]

>>15381241
>unironically talking to people.

[Anonymous No.15389458]

"Do not weep, do not wax ignorant; understand."

[Anonymous No.15389471]

>>15389458
Shit, I fucked up

"Do not weep, do not wax indignant; understand."

[Anonymous No.15389666]

Life is just death, in drag

[Anonymous No.15389744]

>>15382808
underrated

[Anonymous No.15390069]

“What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.”

I make art and think about this a lot

[Anonymous No.15390136]

>>15390069
I like that. Also checked

[Anonymous No.15390159]

>>15381241
One from Bismarck about that the only thing that people learn from history it is that nobody learn from history.

[Anonymous No.15390181]

>A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Taken from Joseph Cornad's book NIGGER of the Narcissus.