Quotes

So, I recently asked my Facebook friends to share their favorite quotes with me. Can’t say I completely blame them, the post was written very late at night when I was tired and not completely tactful, probably came off as pretentious. I even refuse to reread it due to possible cringe and sharing my late-night views of the world.

I am posting it here though, and if anyone makes it to my website and actually starts reading my blogs, I have comments turned on and would love to hear some quotes I am unaware of.

Now, for my Facebook post that got ignored (at least no one removed me as a friend)

I am sick of politics. Please share with me a favorite quote, and if you care to, what it means to you. (It can be political if it must, I’m just not trying to have a debate on it) I’m nonjudgemental, I just want ideas that aren’t my own, that is what solitude does to you. So some of mine, which I am sure I have shared before –

“Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance” Albert Maysles To me and it’s quite possible I am missing the point, it’s a statement about the generalization of issues, people, and beliefs.

To go with that quote, a less intellectual source, from the rap song by Sandman Homeboy – “Reading Dostoevsky don’t mean I read Tolstoy”I read neither, but Crime and Punishment always seemed like a superior novel to me and have more interest in Dostoevsky than Tolstoy.

Another rap song “Blood turns wine when it leaks for policeLike, “That’s not a riot; it’s a feast, let’s eat!” -Aesop Rock
Blood turning the wine, or the opposite of holy sacrament, also wine tends to intoxicate people, and the police are intoxicated by the violence of blood.

lastly, the queen of wit, anything Dorothy Parker “Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.” ― Dorothy Parker

“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!” ― Dorothy Parker

“Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.” ― Dorothy Parker,

Finally, this actually did not make it to my Facebook post, because my post was already too long. This most beautiful quote as far as unrequited love that I have read in my life is by W. H. Auden:

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time