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- Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil
- God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
- Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)
- I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
- Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431), Sworn testimony of the ‘nullification trial’ conducted twenty-five years after Joan’s death gives tons of information about her. The original transcript for this ‘nullification trial’ still exist
- We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
- " i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"
- Sir Stuart Thomas
- If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou (1928 - ), I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
- Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
- We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.
- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
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