Favorite literature quotes~?
 

SO. What are they? Books, poetry, short stories, anything.

My favorite poems all happen to be rather dark, so:
"Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'"

Anyone want to take a guess at where that's from? It a bit obvious, and I love that poem.

"Nobody but the dead know whether all these things that people talk about are worth dying for or not."
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"Death has a Digniry all its own."
-Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Quoth the Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe. And if I remember correctly, I read somewhere once that he actually thought it was an amusing story.

It is. The narrator is not quite sane enough to realize that he's heaping his accusations, the products of his own twisted mind, onto the poor Raven.

And, I think it's just "The Raven".
Poe is a genius.

Er.....does that explain any of my music/manga preferences?

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No, infact the meer idea of an interest in Poe musically inacts the idea of the Moonlit Sonata composed by Ludwig von Bethoven, or the quiet tails of the moonlit hollows of Sleepy Hollow. Night, illuminated by pale moonlight, dancing leavs, and quiet paths left untouched by men at night are the very essence of Edgar Allen Poe, as in anger, guilt, and alcohol that fueled the man whose own guilt and pitty towards other lead him to become who he was, taking on the name of the man who he felt he had caused to die, or a long lost love who inspired one of his greatest works. Or a man who's knowledge of the unsettling goings on in the shadows lead him to write about a murder that had actually happend.

Poe was a man of many tallents and gifts, whose life was unfortunately cut short, and even more unfortunately, he wished to be rememberd as a hated man, even having pre-wrote his own obituary as if he were a stranger telling about how aweful the writer had been, possibly never dreaming that he would become one of the greatest writers to have ever lived.

Kehehe~ As cheesy as Romeo and Juliet can be, that was a wonderful line.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing

Macbeth :3
I actually haven't read much of it yet.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.

Not entirely sure but sounds like either Shakespear or Jane Auston.

"All men must face their death, alone."

Mac'Beth \../,

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

Er....Hamlet?
Never read it; was a guess.

Is it a good play?

In my oppinion, it was the best play ever written by Shakespear. Murder, revenge, love, hate, ghosts, the cost of revenge, and the lengths a man will go to in order to avenge his families honor. While plays such as Macbeth, which was done to impress and honor the man who commisioned Shakespear, or Romeo and Juliet, which is rather Anacranistic in parts, Hamlet is a story that can appeal to men and women alike.

"One day, all will beg me to save them, and I will say No."

Eeeek~ I'm crossing my fingers and hoping you're quoting the comic so I can say I loves yous for it! Rorschach from Watchmen.

Hmm.... one of my favorite book quotes. CX

"Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!"

YES! *glomps and loves the Coro* I honestlt didnt expect anyone to catch that xD.

I swear I recognize that quote >.<.

"Mother? Mother?? Where are you mother?! I'm having a nightmare mother and I cant wake up! I cant! I cant move. Hold me. I'm Scared. Oh mother sing to me and rub me and bathe me and comb my hair and wash my ears and clap my hands together and with Elizibekiss my eyes and mouth like I've seen you do with Elizabeth like you must have done with me. Then I'll wake up and I'll be with you and I'll never be afraid or dream again..."

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently, the point is, to change it." -Karl Marx

"Did you ever hear the expression "Too close for comfort"? That was damn uncomfortable." -Vampire Hunter D; Volume 4

"'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.'" - Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

"There 's daggers in men's smiles."
-Macbeth

"He's a son of a bitch." -Shakespear, I forget which play.

Shakespear coined the phrase ^_^.

"Stars, hide your fires;/ Let not light see my black and deep desires./ The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be/ Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see".

Hehe. Love this quote.

Shakespeare coined a lot of phrases, many of which are...er.....inappropriate XD

"Why is it called cats cradle? There aint no cat and and there aint no cradle, so why the hell is it even called cats cradle?! It makes no damn since!"

Hehe, we were reading Macbeth today in class, and I was like, "....that sounds soooooo familiar....Oh yeah. Someone said that on Trisphee" XD

"Steel does not speak and Circuit boards hold no answers." -Deviant Art Artist

Yes that's by Edgar Allen Poe...but the title? Is it the "The Raven"?

One of my favorite literary quotes is "It was not art for art's sake but art for the sake of sanity." from a book whose whole title I forgot Dx
But I"m pretty sure it had 2001 in the title.

@Ju: That sounds really familiar to me too....

@Espy: This is annoying...oh I just remembered HAL. -experiments on google-
It's from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

EDIT: they made a movie on it? o.o

"Not bad, but you've got to learn to relax. An insult's got a certain rhythm and flow to it that you haven't quite picked up yet."
- Beldin, in David Eddings's "The Belgariad"

Beldin's this ugly ass dwarf that has a super bad attitude and loves to swear. He's an awesome character, though.

•"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 9

"Rich man, poor man, come away,
Come to dance the Macabray,
Time to work and time to play,
Time to dance the Macabray,
One and all will hear and stay,
Come and dance the Macabray,
One to leave and one to stay,
And all will dance the Macabray,
Gracious lady, this I pray,
Join me in the Macabray,
Step and turn and walk and stay,
Now we dance the Macabray"

I have no words:
My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out!

Macduff, who is quickly growing on me.

Cheshire Cat: I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!

Alice: Life must be hard for you.

Cheshire Cat: But I grin and bear it!

haha I like this one.

"The difference between a man and a hero is simple, if given a choice a man will live, while a hero is willing to die."

- Walker von Karin 'Before the Senate'
From the book Sigil of the Wolf by Christopher Lydon

I have a new favorite quote from Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs:

Charbonneau: "You were unarmed."
Temperance Brennan: "I was armed with righteous fury."
Charbonneau: "Rarely wins against a semiautomatic."

I'm putting these all together because they're all from the same book.

There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting.
That is the tale; the rest is detail.

"This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is."
"What?"
"The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are."

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Would you believe that all the gods that people have ever imagined are still with us today? ... And that there are new gods out there, gods of computers and telephones and whatever, and that they all seem to think there isn't room for them both in the world. And that some kind of war is kind of likely.

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not fooling a soul."

“Which path should I take?” he asked. “Which one is safe?”
“Take one, and you cannot take the other,” she said. “But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?”
“Truths,” he said. “I’ve come too far for more lies.”
She looked sad. “There will be a price, then,” she said.

(also from the same book but the post was getting kind of long and I didn't want to stretch the page.)

"It’s not easy to believe.”

“I,” she told him, “can believe anything. You have no idea what I can believe.”

“Really?”

“I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen — I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” She stopped, out of breath.

Shadow almost took his hands off the wheel to applaud. Instead he said, “Okay. So if I tell you what I’ve learned you won’t think that I’m a nut.”

“Maybe,” she said. “Try me.