Favorite Quotes

[real human being]

So, I've recently started collecting quotes I like from various movies, songs, etc. Here's what I have so far (and feel free to post your favorites as well).


Even though I am no better than a beast, don't I have the right to live?

- Oldboy


I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair

- Hurt, Nine Inch Nails


And when you wake up
Everything is gonna be fine
I guarantee that you'll wake
In a better place, in a better time

- A Better Place, A Better Time, Streetlight Manifesto


The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost.
The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed.
Since beginningless time darkness thrives in the void.
But always yields to purifying light.

- Lion Turtle, ATLA


Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source.
True humility is the only antidote to shame.

- Iroh, ATLA


I believe people can change their lives if they want to.
I believe in second chances.

- Iroh, ATLA


Hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane.

- Max, Mad Max


Where must we go? We who wander this wasteland in search of our better selves?

- The First History Man, Mad Max


Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

- Schindler's List

 

[Makoto]

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source.
True humility is the only antidote to shame.

- Iroh, ATLA

this got me.

 

[Bluebells]

One of my recent favourites is from the poem "Prayer before birth" by Louis MacNiece. He talks of what he wants before he is born and the last line is so simple though I love it; "Otherwise kill me"
And Virginia Woolf's "What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you." Hauntingly beautiful

 

[psp3000]

"make it make it make it don't fake it make it make it goddamit come on bitch"

- Trash Humpers (2009)

"To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part."

- Slacker (1990)

 

[Pluto]

 

[Superdeterminist]

"For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause."

-Hamlet

"If there is a god,
He will have to beg my forgiveness."

-Unidentified WWII death camp prisoner

"That thousands have lived in happiness and joy, would never do away with the anguish of one individual."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[DefinitelyReady]

All the quotes from the beginning and end of Criminal Minds episodes. I don't know why they haven't printed a book of them...

 

[One day too late]

"Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard. It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred." - 50 Cent

 

[meoka<3]

Now, I don't know if this is cringey or not, but my favorite quote is actually from a character in one of my favorite fantasy series.

"To me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is you, and not the state of you."
-Xie Lian

 

[DefinitelyReady]

"Nice playin' football bitch!"

-Nigel Gruff
"The Replacements" movie

 

[Onelegman]

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man"
- Patrick Rothfuss (writer)
- The wise man's fear (book)