THE DARKNESS
Miscellaneous Quotes #2
101. Now lesson number one in homicide
102. So look out into the morning rain
103. I will never let them break your heart
104. You say there is no perfect place
105. The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth. -Chief Seattle
106. Whenever I'm alone with you
107. Our memories
108. Today is a good day to die. -Kalas, Star Trek
109. I mean, after everything that's happened, well, how many times can a guy get hit over the head before he starts believing in things like hammers? -The Blood Jaguar, Michael Payne
110. For every evil under the sun
111. Darkling I listen; and for many a time
112. The blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
113. Do not go gentle into that good night,
114. Jai tant fait patience
'I've been patient too long
115. Credo che tiamo. 'I believe I love you.' -I, Vampire, Michael Romkey
116. In this decayed hole among the mountains.
117. In green fields,
118. Love won't grow old, without memories,
119. The dead sleep in their moonless night. All history is an epitaph. A few days more, and idle eyes will run over your obituary, the world forget you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in The Vampire Papers
120. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. -23rd Psalm
121. Temet Nostre. 'Know yourself.' -unknown
122. A cat is as beautiful the last day as the first. And it keeps its spittle. Not like a dog. -"Under the Garden", Graham Greene, Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
123. There were years of being too afraid to try. It was a constant process of laziness and terror. I wanted to write since I was a teen. I was just afraid to commit myself. -Nathan Englander, Entertainment Weekly's 'It Jewish Mother's Dream', 1999
124. I could never share the pain
Burning in your heart
Yet you keep saying everything is all right -"Touch the Hurricane" (?), Bubble Gum Crisis
125. Big city, we're standing here, we're heart to heart
Children lost, seeking love out in the dark
Big city, steals a farthing day by day
Will you ever ease the pain
The tears won't take away
Tonight a hurricane
Feel the hurricane
Spending this lonely night loving you
Tonight a hurricane, touch me hurricane
Show me your love with your touch, burning touch -"Touch the Hurricane" (?), Bubble Gum Crisis
126. Little things used to mean so much to Shelly. I used to think they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial. -Eric Draven, 'The Crow: The Movie'
127. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. -Brandon Lee, in his last on-camera interview
128. And now we're grown up orphans
I never knew their names
We don't belong to no one,
That's a shame
You could hide beside me
Maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name -"Name", Goo Goo Dolls
129. Scars and souvenirs you never lose,
The past is never far
And did you lose yourself somewhere out there
Did you get to be a star
And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are -"Name", Goo Goo Dolls
130. You grew up way too fast
And now there's nothing to believe
And reruns all become our history -"Name", Goo Goo Dolls
131. Nothing in the world is as certain as death. -Jean Froissart, quoted in Timeline
132. Always eat at a meal. Because you never know when your next one will be. -Timeline, Michael Crichton
133. I always think everything is a trap, which is why I'm still alive. -Prince Humperdinck, 'The Princess Bride'
134. You truly love each other, and so you might've ben truly happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, no matter what the storybooks say. And so I think no man in a century shall suffer as greatly as you. -Prince Humperdinck, 'The Princess Bride'
135. She is the saddest girl
That I have ever known
She wakes me up in the middle of the night
Just to tell me
everything will be all right
I tell myself the same damn thing
Everyday
Everything will be all right -"amphetamine", Everclear
136. Magic is simply that which we do not yet understand. -The Empire of Fear, Brian Stableford
137. Beauty and grace is what touches me most
Good times can put me in fear
I always feel safe when things are bad
So I cannot let you come near
It seems that I thrive on the dark side of things
I always feel alive when the death bell rings
Now you come and bring out the tears in me -"Wishing It Was", Eagle-Eye Cherry and Santana
138. Pain never makes me cry, but happiness does
It's so strange to watch your life walk by
Wishing it was
Wishing it was more like a fantasy
Where every day surprises me -"Wishing It Was", Eagle-Eye Cherry and Santana
139. C'mon kiss me now, hold me now, it's just us for now
Even I don't know why I want you
C'mon hold me now, hold me now
It don't matter how
Don't you see, it's just me
I need you -"Love Panic", Ranma 1/2
140. All beautiful people are very fragile. The more beautiful their demise, the more legends are spun. -Shido Tatsuhiko, 'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
141. Those engaged in the arts need to have the strength to face their own inner demons. -Shido Tatsuhiko, 'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
142. The eternal light exists alongside the eternal darkness. -Cain, 'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
143. Where there is light, there is darkness. Those who only inhabit the sunny side pretend not to notice it. -Shido Tatsuhiko, 'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
144. Where there is light, there is darkness. The humans, who only inhabit the sunny side of the world, try to look away from this reality. -Shido Tatsuhiko, 'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
145. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, and the other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein
146. Gypsy lore held that when something came in a repitition of three, it was magical, a geas, meant to bind a person to an unanticipated fate. Whether or not that person wanted it. -The Eagle and the Nightingales, Mercedes Lackey
147. If he had been a human, he would have been sobbing uncontrollably.
He could not-so she wept for him. -The Eagle and the Nightingales, Mercedes Lackey
148. You cannot speak truly of the path without walking it. -The Eagle and the Nightingales, Mercedes Lackey
149. What nonsense. These are stories created by people who want to find someone else to blame than themselves for their childrens' acts. -The Eagle and the Nightingales, Mercedes Lackey
150. If there was one thing that the powerful feared, it was that those they sought to rule discovered that ultimately the real power lay only in thier own acquiescence to be ruled. -The Eagle and the Nightingales, Mercedes Lackey
151. His clothing of deep black silk, a simple tunic and trews without ornamentation or embroidery of any kind. By that, she knew he was more powerful than any Elven mage she had ever yet met; only a mage of great power would be confident enough to do without the trappings of power. -The Eagle and the Nightingales, Mercedes Lackey
152. There are plenty of people who go cloaked at night, even in the worst heat of summer-and anyone who does is probably so dangerous that most people deliberately avoid him. Someone who doesn't want you to notice him is someone you likely don't want to notice you. -The Eagle and the Nightingales, Mercedes Lackey
153. There are people that still fight even though they know they are not strong. Even if it means losing their life. -Tira, Sorceror Hunters
154. If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. 'The Crow: The Movie'
155. I don't believe Eric is a hero. He can be absolutely cold-blooded and ruthless at times. When he goes into a room to get one person, everyone else in the room is probably going to die as well. I think what he's doing it terribly romantic, but I wouldn't call him a hero. -James O'Barr
156. The Crow dramatizes O'Barr's belief that "an absolute, pure love does exist," and that "there are no boundaries between good and evil where love is concerned." -The Crow: The Movie, Jeff Conner and Robert Zuckerman
157. People once believed that when a person died, a crow carried their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it, and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to make the wrong things right. -'The Crow: The Movie'
158. Write your soul down word for word
See who's your friend
And who is kind -"You Won't Be Mine", Matchbox 20
159. Even heroes have the right to bleed
...
Even heroes have the right to dream -"Superman", unknown band
160. I am not your weakness. -Sagara Sanosuke, 'Rurouni Kenshin'
161. Eien nante hoshiku nainoyo. (?) 'I don't want eternity.' -Shido Tatushiko, 'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
162. Guess what, nothing lasts forever. -'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
163. I don't want eternity. But...is it a crime to wish that life at this moment would go on forever? -'Night Walker: Midnight Detective'
164. This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper. -"The Hollow Men", T. S. Eliot
165. The course of true love never did run smooth. -"A Midsummer Night's Dream", William Shakespeare
166. When my anger grows
I use it to win. -"Defy You", The Offspring
167. Now you ain't gotta stand up tall
But now baby you must stand up. -"Witness", The Wallflowers
168. ...in Bradbury's world the myth is ultimately stronger than the reality, and the heart stronger than the head. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
169. As for my gravestone? I would like to borrow that great barber-pole from out front of the town shoppe, and have it run at midnight if you happen to drop by my mound to say hello. And there the old barber-pole would be, lit, its bright ribbons twining up out of mystery, turning, and twining away up into further mysteries forever. And if you come to visit, leave an apple for the ghosts. -Ray Bradbury, quoted in Danse Macabre
170. Childhood is the time, Bradbury insists, when you are still able to believe in things you know cannot be true. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
171. I don't think the book means anything to me at this time. None of my work does from the distant past. I think I prefer I Am Legend if I had to choose, but they are both too far from me to have any significance in particular...Accordingly, I wouldn't change anything about The Shrinking Man. It is a part of my history. I have no reason to change it, only to look at it without much interest and be pleased at whatever stir it made. I just read the first story I ever sold the other day-"Born of Man and Woman"-[and] I cannot relate to the story at all. I remember writing certain phrases but it was somone else who wrote them. -Richard Matheson, quoted in Danse Macabre
172. ...does anyone have the slighest doubt about what would happen if we were suddenly changed to a height of seven inches tall by malign magic and yon kitty curled up by the fire woke up and happened to see us skittering across the floor? Cats, those amoral gunslingers of the animal world, are maybe the scariest mammals going. I wouldn't want to be up against one in a situation like that. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
173. All fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
174. The great theme of fantasy fiction is not holding the magic and wielding it; it is-or so it seems to me-finding the magic and discovering how it works. "I do not choose to review fantasy," a some-time-critic for no less an organ than the New York Times Book Review once told me. "I have no interest in the hallucinations of the mad." It's always good to be in contact with such an open mind. It broadens one. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
175. There are some people who just shouldn't be allowed to fool around with love. -"Hitler Painted Roses", Harlan Ellison
176. We want everyone to stop what they are doing to make this a bad place, or we will take this place away from you. -"Emissary From Hamelin", Harlan Ellison
177. I would suggest that there has been a great tendency, particularly when it comes to such popular forms as movies, television, and mainstream fiction, to kill the messenger for the message. I do not now and never have doubted that the youths who burned the lady in Roxbury got the idea from the telecast of Fuzz one Sunday night on ABC; if it had not been shown stupidity and lack of imagination might well have reduced them to murdering her in some more mundane way. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
178. The danse macabre is a waltz with death. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
179. ...happiness, too, is inevitable. -Albert Camus, quoted in Danse Macabre
180. Children see everything, consider everything; the typical expression of the baby which is full, dry, and awake is a wide-eyed goggle at everything. Hello, pleased to meet you, freaked to be here. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
181. And the horror writer? Someone else looks at that item about Little Miss Nobody (toldja we'd get back to her, and here she is, still unidentified, as mysterious as the Wolf Boy of Paris) and says, "Jeez, you never can tell, can you?" and goes on to something else. But the fantasist begins to play with it as a child would, speculating about children from other dimensions, about doppelgangers, about God knows what. It's a child's toy, something bright and shiny and strange. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
182. And something of this is reflected in the eyes of those who write horror stories. Ray Bradbury has the dreamy eyes of a child. So, behind his thick glasses, does Jack Finney. The same look is in Lovecraft's eyes-they startle with their simple dark directness, especially in that narrow, pinched, and somehow eternal New England face. Harlan Ellison, in spite of his rapid, jive-talking shoot-from-the-hip Nervous-Norvus mode of conversation (talking with Harlan can sometimes be like talking with an apocalyptic Saladmaster salesman who has just taken three large bennies), has those eyes. Every now and then he'll pause, looking away, looking at something else, and you know that it's true: Harlan is bent, and he just thought his way around a corner. Peter Staub, who dresses impeccably and who always seems to project the aura of some big company success, also has that look in his eyes. It's an indefinable look, but it's there. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
183. It's the best set of electric trains a boy ever had. -Orson Welles, on making movies, quoted in Danse Macabre
184. It is, at bottom, a dance of dreams. It's a way of awakening the child inside, who never dies but only sleeps ever more deeply. If the horror story is our rehearsal for death, then its strict moralities make it also a reaffirmation of life and good will and simple imagination-just one more pipeline to the infinite. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
185. Yeah. I think maybe that's what I want to leave you with, in lieu of a goodnight kiss, that word which children respect instinctively, that word whose truth we only rediscover as adults in our stories...and in our dreams.
Magic. -Danse Macabre, Stephen King
186. Out of the formless stream of sad but horrible sounds, strings of words would now and again shape themselves: grim, hard, cold words, heartless and miserable. The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered. -Fellowship of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
187. After working on and molding her for 7 years, Lenore has to me, become a real person. As such, sometimes I love her like a daughter. Other times, I realize that she is just something from the depths of my mind that has somehow found its way on to paper because I so want her to exist in the real world. Everyone has a dark side; I'm just glad I found mine in the shape of a cute little dead girl! -Noogies, Introduction, Roman Dirge
188. "I couldn't stop them. They were tears of pain, the kind you can't hold back for anybody or anythin." -Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
189. "Doin' that's about the most dangerous thing a person can do, I think, because a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anythin else, even dyin." -Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
190. How could you feel used,
When I feel trapped -"Some Flowers Bloom Dead", The Wallflowers
191. You can murder in the first degree
You can even make yourself believe
That you never even think of me
When you're packing up your things to leave
My intuition failed, I can't graduate unskilled
They don't excuse the young
This is Murder 101 -"Murder 101", The Wallflowers
192. Your eyes have turned red
And are holding me
Inside your story
In the end
You'll be starting on a new one
Of anguish and delusions -"Birdcage", The Wallflowers
193. ...how good it is to be here, alive and well and talking to you once more...and how good it is to know that you are still there, alive and well and waiting to go some other place-a place where, perhaps, the walls have eyes and the trees have ears and something really unpleasant is trying to find its way out of the attic and downstairs, to where the people are. That thing still interests me...but I think these days that the people who may or may not be listening for it interest me more. -Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
194. Yet not all of my concerns have changed, and most of my convictions have only grown stronger. I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love; I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of those connections is horribly, outrageously high...and I still believe in the coming of the white and in finding a place to make a stand...and defending that place to the death. These are old-fashioned concerns and beliefs, but I would be a liar if I did not admit I still own them. And that they still own me. -Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
195. Don't give up your fear...but don't give into it, either. -"The Langoliers", Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
196. I know make-believe when I hear it. It's interesting, that's all. -Dinah, "The Langoliers", Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
197. This is hell. I am in a hell of bees and big-band horns. -Toomy, "The Langoliers", Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
198. Writing, it seems to me, is a secret act-as secret as dreaming... -Four Past Midnight, Stephen King
199. "...a person can't much help his feelings, and I think God knows that..." -Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
200. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto. -Vera Donovan, Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King
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