THE DARKNESS
Miscellaneous Quotes #1

1. Pain? Pain is like love, like compassion! It is a thing only for lesser men. What is pain to Doom? -Doctor Doom, Fantastic Four #278, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

2. Where is the satisfaction of ruling a planet of automatons, hmm? Better to break their spirits than enslave their minds. Better if they know they have been conquered. -Thunderbolts #11, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

3. Many of the people here know me, Kator...I've killed a lot of their friends. -Hawkworld (MINI) #1, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

4. I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do isn't very nice. -Wolverine, Wolverine (MINI) #1, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

5. To save millions of lives, I would track down the child at his home and smother him where he lay. Then I would destroy his family...his family's family...I would raze an entire city to the ground, and scour his ashes from the Earth. -Magneto, when asked what he'd do if given the chance to kill Hitler as a child, X-Men #85, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

6. How can two people hate so much without knowing each other? -Batman to Alfred, about his long-standing feud with the Joker, Batman: The Killing Joke, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

7. For a man who can hear clouds scrape together, you don't listen very well. -Bruce Wayne, Kingdom Come #2, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

8. All I've ever been good at is killing, so I might as well enjoy it. -Sin City, quoted in Wizard: June 2000

9. A man who loves a vampire lady may not die young, but cannot live forever. -Walachian proverb, found in Tomorrow Sucks

10. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. 'Who watches the watchmen?' -Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347, quoted in Watchmen

11. Nothing hurts when you're not real. -"Bulletproof", Goo Goo Dolls

12. I knew you before I knew myself. -"I Have Alway Loved You", Enrique Iglesias

13. Do you think you're better off alone? -unknown

14. The world seems bigger
Than both of us.
Yet it seems so small
When I begin to cry.
-Splendor, unknown song title

15. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis. 'Art is long, life is short.' -school poster

16. I want to know how forever feels. -unknown song

17. Who wants to live forever? -"Who Wants to Live Forever", Queen, 'The Highlander'

18. Is there anything to feel?
Is it pain that makes you real?
Cut me off before it kills me. -"Long Way Down", Goo Goo Dolls

19. They can't hurt you unless you let them. -"One Hit Wonder", Everclear

20. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hound of the Baskervilles

21. What's the point in all this screaming?
No one's listening anyway. -Foo Fighters, unknown song title

22. Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. -Powerpuff Girls (?)

23. Pressure makes diamonds. -unknown

24. Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. -William Wallace, 'Braveheart'

25. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsman, and won their freedom. -'Braveheart'

26. And life, it seems so easy when it's from my easy chair... -"Burnin' Up", Goo Goo Dolls

27. "Why step on me?" the ant asked the elephant. "Because I can, and because you have annoyed me." -Acorna, Anne McCaffrey

28. Someone already hates us. Be charitable. Give him good reason to hate and fear us. -Acorna, Anne McCaffrey

29. The best revenge is revenge. -Acorna, Anne McCaffrey

30. "Oh you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." -Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass, quoted in Tailchaser's Song

31. I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. -Wallace Stevens, quoted in Tailchaser's Song

32. Who wakes in the wilderness when night is done
Fancying himself lord of all the land
May see what was not there at the set of sun
And tremblingly will come to understand
The peril that has passed him in the dark-
Tracks...in the sand. -Archibald Rutledge, quoted in Tailchaser's Song

33. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs...and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug...but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your lovely ideas. -Tailchaser's Song, Tad Williams

34. The fox has a bag of tricks,
The hedgehog one very good one. -Archilochos, quoted in Tailchaser's Song

35. Tangaloor, fire-bright
Flame-foot, farthest walker,
You hunter speaks
In need he walks
In need, but never in fear. -Tailchaser's Song, Tad Williams

36. ...there's not much point in singing the song if you have to guess at the words. -Tailchaser's Song, Tad Williams

37. Humankind cannot bear very much reality. -T. S. Eliot

38. I know you. If I were blind I would know what you are. -Schmendrick, 'The Last Unicorn'

39. My secrets guard themselves. Will yours do the same? -King Haggard, 'The Last Unicorn'

40. So you say you've lost your way in this city style,
But the tears you cry still run innocent as a child. -"Bokutachi wa Tenshi Datta", English version, Dragon Ball Z

41. Morituri te salutans. 'We who are about to die salute you.' -Gladiators' salute before engaging in battle

42. Nobody lives without love.
Nobody gets to give up.
You can try to lock your heart away,
But love will come back for you someday.
Nobody lives without love. -Eddi Reader, "Nobody Lives Without Love"

43. World War IV will be the most interesting because it will be fought with slingshots. -Albert Einstein

44. I want to tell you with my last breath...I have always loved you... I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul...than enter heaven without you. Because of your love...I will never be a lonely spirit. -Li Mu Bai, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

45. Whatever path you take in this life, be true to yourself. -Shu Lien, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

46. To Live as Yourself is Free. -graffiti on Memphis overpass

47. Omoide wa itsu mo kirei da kedo
Sore dake ja onaka ga suku wa
(Memories are always beautiful but
with only that I'll go hungry) -"Sobakasu", YUKI, Rurouni Kenshin

48. Now we are not afraid
Although we know there's much to fear
We were moving mountains
Long before we knew we could -"When You Believe", 'Prince of Egypt'

49. And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moments of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
You bleed just to know you're alive. -"Iris", Goo Goo Dolls

50. She didn't remember fairy tales being so nasty. Then she frowned. Yes, she did. In the original Cinderella, the evil stepsisters carved up their own feet so that they could wear the glass slippers. And didn't that end with birds stealing the stepsisters' eyes? And what about all the blood in the original Little Mermaid? Children's movies hadn't done anyone a favor by cleaning up the gore in fairy tales. If they hadn't done that, she would have been beter prepared. -The 10th Kingdom, Kathryn Wesley

51. "They just split up, all right? Doesn't that ever happen where you come from?"
"Of course not," Wolf said. "We either live happily ever after or get killed by horrible curses." -The 10th Kingdom, Kathryn Wesley

52. At our wedding the Dwarves gave me away, and I saw in their eyes that gleam of pride and hurt, and I realized I had received something very special. The love of people who do not give their love easily, or do not give it often. But I had to leave them to fulfill my destiny. There are a great many lies, but the biggest of them is the lie of obedience. -Snow White, The 10th Kingdom, Kathryn Wesley

53. When the student is ready the teacher will appear. -unknown

54. Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym... -Salem's Lot, Stephen King

55. I will see you sleep like the dead... -Salem's Lot, Stephen King

56. Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting-not for the first time-on the peculiarity of adults. They took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping pills to drive away their terror so that sleep would come, and their terrors were so tame and domestic: the job, the money, what the teacher will think if I can't get Jennie nicer clothes, does my wife still love me, who are my friends. They were pallid compared to the fears every child lies cheek and jowl with in his dark bed, with no one to confess to in hope of perfect understanding but another child. There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the poitn where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.
In some shorter, simpler mental shorthand, these thoughts passed through his brain. The night before, Matt Burke had faced such a dark thing and had been stricken by a heart attack brought on by fright; tonight Mark Petrie had faced one, and ten minutes later lay in the lap of sleep, the plastic cross still grasped loosely in his right hand like a child's rattle. Such is the difference between men and boys. -Salem's Lot, Stephen King

57. There was nothing else to say. The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer. -Salem's Lot, Stephen King

58. He was thinking that the deep depression which followed grave illness could sometimes be avoided if the person afflicted had a deep enough investment in life: artists, musicians, a carpenter whose thoughts centered on some half-completed building. The interest could just as well be linked to some harmless (or not so harmless) psychosis, perhaps incipient before the illness. -Salem's Lot, Stephen King

59. And travelers now within the valley
Through the red litten windows see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a rapid ghastly river,
Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh-but smile no more. -"The Haunted Palace", Edgar Allan Poe, quoted in Salem's Lot

60. I heard a voice, crying from the deep:
Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep. -Old Rock N' Roll song, quoted in Salem's Lot

61. Who will survive and what will be left of them? -'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', quoted in "The Late Shift", Dark Forces edited by Kirby McCauley

62. Pehagerav monely. Pehagerav tre vodyi. 'Thrice the candles smoke by me. Thrice thy heart shall broken be.' -"Dark Angel", Edward Bryant, Dark Forces

63. I had learned well that boasting was idle, and led only to still closer interrogation. -"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale", Robert Aickman, Dark Forces

64. Wherever mortals gather there is evil. -unknown, quoted on 'The Sentinel'

65. Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything. -quoted in Salem's Lot, Stephen King

66. The eyes are the windows of the soul. -Wordsworth

67. Why does my heart ache so much, when I'm not supposed to have one? -'Digimon: The Movie'

68. Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. -'Gladiator'

69. A thousand other boys could never reach you.
How could I have been the one? -"Black Balloon", Goo Goo Dolls

70. And she wants to tear you down
And she leaves without a sound
It's like falling backwards into no one's arms. -"Bulletproof", Goo Goo Dolls

71. What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone. -"Shame", Matchbox 20

72. We always say
It'd be good to go away, someday,
But if there's nothing there to make things change
If it's the same for you I'll just stay... -Matchbox 20, unknown song title

73. Father of mine
Tell me where have you been?
You know I just closed my eyes
My whole world disappeared. -"Father of Mine", Everclear

74. I just don't understand how
You can smile with all
Those tears in your eyes
And tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
-"Wonderful", Everclear

75. I close my eyes when I got to bed and
I dream of angels who make me smile
I feel better
When I hear them say
Everything will be
Wonderful someday. -"Wonderful", Everclear

76. We never talk about the future.
We never talk about the past anymore.
We never ask ourselves the questions to the answers that nobody even wants to know.
So much for the afterglow. -"So Much For the Afterglow", Everclear

77. I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills.
They have never been poor,
They have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas. -"I Will Buy You a New Life", Everclear

78. Yeah, I guess I'm doing okay,
I moved in with the strangest guy
Can you believe he actually thinks that I am really alive -"I Will Buy You a New Life", Everclear

79. Nightmares just don't scare me now,
Baby, without you -"Now That It's Over", Everclear

80. Not all who wander are lost. -Tolkien

81. Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes -"Drive", Incubus

82. I am a loser geek
Crazy with an evil streak
Yes I do believe there is a violent thing inside of me. -"White Men in Black Suits", Everclear

83. I refuse to be afraid of almost anyone
Afraid of all the things they do or all the words that they say
Let's live the way we wanna live and hope they go away -"White Men in Black Suits", Everclear

84. Now that I've found my reward
Throw it away long before
I'll share a piece of mine with you -Foo Fighters, unknown song title

85. Don't the best of them bleed it out
While the rest of them peter out -"My Hero", Foo Fighters

86. What have we done with innocence?
It disappeared with time
It never made much sense -"Monkey Wrench", Foo Fighters

87. I can handle all the hell
That happens everyday
When you smile and touch my face
You make it all just go away -"Learning How to Smile", Everclear

88. You think I'm going to lose to someone who's only motivated by resentment? -Sion, 'The Bouncer'

89. Every silver lining has a dark, dark cloud;
Always after sunshine comes the rain;
They say that after night, the dawn is sure to be bright;
But don't forget the night will come again. -'school rhyme', Star Trek: The Next Generation comic, "The Gift", by John DeLancie

90. Closing time
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end -"Closing Time", Semisonic

91. Made to dream of flying
So high
Made to wake up crying
I don't know why
Beautiful one
Sleep in the sun
Secret, sweet, and sublime
I hope you last a long, long time -"Made to Last", Semisonic

92. Saturday morning, alone and barely feeling
Sitting at home after rockin' and a'reeling
All night in a cat fight, with the only one who can make me cry -"Never You Mind", Semisonic

93. Nobody knows it, but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it, but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
So use it, and prove it
Remove this world and the sadness
I'm losing and bluesing, but you can
Save me from madness now -"Secret Smile", Semisonic

94. I found out one life just ain't enough
I need another soul to feed on
I am the flame, I can't get burnt
I'm wholly underrated -"Busted", Matchbox 20

95. Mother father please explain to me
Why a world so full of mystery
A place so bitter and still so sweet
So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad
...

Mother father please explain to me
How a man who rocks his child to sleep
Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred

Mother father please explain to me
How this world has come to be
A precious balance in between
Such cruelty and such kindness please

Mother father please explain to me
How this world has come to be
Unequaled in her blessings, oh, I see
Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me

...

Oh mother father please explain to me
How this rare world's come to be
A place so full of color yet overflowing
Always in black and white
Drowning in the waters of our... -"Mother Father", Dave Matthews Band

96. Causes thrown
Nothing's free
Looking for what used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams -"The Kids Aren't All Right", Offspring

97. What the hell is going on
The cruellest dream, reality -"The Kids Aren't All Right", Offspring

98. We will fight, not out of spite
For someone must stand up for what's right
Where is the man that has no voice?
There I shall go singing -"Hands", Jewel

99. I tell the kids that it's all okay
I laugh a lot so my friends don't know
When the bell rings I just don't want to go home -"Wonderful", Everclear

100. Here's to the nights we felt alive
Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry
Here's to goodbye, tomorrow's come
And it's gone too soon -"Here's to the Night", Eve6

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