Post your favourite quote or poem!

[Aunt Hilda]

And I was like baby, baby, baby, oh
Like baby, baby, baby, no
Like baby, baby, baby, oh
I thought you'd always be mine, mine

-Justin Bieber

[microrobert]

"[The cat] is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe...who seeks a proud and beautiful equal in the peerage of individualism...

The cat is for him who does things not for empty duty but for power, pleasure, splendour, romance, and glamour - for the harpist who sings alone in the night of old battles, or the warrior who goes out to fight such battles for beauty, glory, fame, and the splendour of a land athwart which no shadow of weakness falls."

- H.P. Lovecraft, Something About Cats, 1937

[liamliam]

Turn your wounds, into wisdom

[Elsa]

J/K

[Ice]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

[microrobert]

The truth is always good, isn’t it, even if it is uncomfortable? And lies, real lies, can’t ever be good in the long run, can they?

Thrasymachus (ca. 459-400 BCE)

[Marusya]

A random thought, if said aloud, may soon attract a hostile crowd. ~ Edward Gorey

[Jana]

Dont wish to translate it in English, it doesn't sound right. It's a Russian poem by Sergej Jesenjin

Pismo majci (Croatian)

Jesi l živa, staričice moja?
Sin tvoj živi i pozdrav ti šalje.
Nek uvečer nad kolibom tvojom
Ona čudna svjetlost sja i dalje.

Pišu mi da viđaju te često
zbog mene veoma zabrinutu
i da ideš svaki čas na cestu
u svom trošnom starinskom kaputu.

U sutonu plavom da te često
uvijek isto priviđenje muči:
kako su u krčmi finski nož
u srce mi zaboli u tuči.

Nemaj straha! Umiri se, draga!
Od utvare to ti srce zebe.
Tako ipak propio se nisam
da bih umro ne vidjevši tebe.

Kao nekad, i sada sam nježan,
i srce mi živi samo snom,
da što prije pobjegnem od jada
i vratim se u naš niski dom.

Vratit ću se kad u našem vrtu
rašire se grane pune cvijeta.
Samo nemoj da u ranu zoru
budiš me ko prije osam ljeta.

Nemoj budit odsanjane snove,
nek miruje ono čega ne bi:
odveć rano zamoren životom,
samo čemer osjećam u sebi.

I ne uči da se molim. Pusti!
Nema više vraćanja ka starom.
Ti jedina utjeha si moja,
svjetlo što mi sija istim žarom.

Umiri se! Nemoj da te često
viđaju onako zabrinutu,
i ne idi svaki čas na cestu
u svom trošnom starinskom kaputu.

[StormBringer]

“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
Burroughs

"You better drink your drink and shut your mouth."
Ghoultown

[Raphacam]

I could really paste quotes all day long, but I'll rather post three I've been meditating on:

Bobby Sands:

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Hermann Hesse:

A man of the Classical Age who had to live in medieval times would suffocate miserably just as a savage does in the midst of our civilisation. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standard, no security, no simple acquiescence. Naturally, every one does not feel this equally strongly. A nature such as Nietzsche's had to suffer our present ills more than a generation in advance. What he had to go through alone and misunderstood, thousands suffer today.

Ecclesiastes 2:11:

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.