Quotes By Letter: M

“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.”

-Paradise Lost, John Milton

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“O Conscience! into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged!”

-Paradise Lost, John Milton

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“The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.”

-Paradise Lost, John Milton

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“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”

-Torture Garden, Octave Mirbeau

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“Do you expect me to fly into a rage at that? I am sorry to disappoint you. You can't make me mad be calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names.”

-Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell

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“Nothing has turned out as we expected. It never does. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

-Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell

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“I've changed my mind so much I can't even trust it
My mind changed me so much I can't even trust myself.”

-Talkin Shit About A Pretty Sunset, Modest Mouse

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“And despite what I might say
I measure pleasure by the pain
Measure pleasure by the twisting
Of the metal in the vein.”

-Resurrection, Moist

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“Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.”

-Jean-Baptiste Molière

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“I am good but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

-Marilyn Monroe

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“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world not because I was talented or even beautiful but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone ever”

-Marilyn Monroe

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“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

-Marilyn Monroe

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“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

-Marilyn Monroe

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“Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.”

-Michel de Montaigne

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“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”

-Essays, Michel de Montaigne

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“I am not loved, I know that. Not in soul or body. I have never known the soft whisper of endearment, never known the peace that lies beneath the thighs of a woman. But I am respected. I am feared. And that will suffice.”

-V For Vendetta, Alan Moore

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“Crazed with helplessness, I cursed God and wept, wondering if he wept also. But then, what use his tears, if his help was denied me? My own sobbing had frightened the gulls. They departed... and in the terrible silence I understood the true breadth of the word 'isolation.'”

-Watchmen, Alan Moore

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“Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire thread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'...

... and I'll look down, and whisper 'No.'”

-Watchmen, Alan Moore

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“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace. This dichotomy is not an invention of the twentieth century, yet it is this century that the most striking examples of the phenomena have appeared. Never before has man pursued global harmony more vocally while amassing stockpiles of weapons so devastating in their effect. The second world war - we were told - was The War To End Wars. The development of the atomic bomb is the Weapon to End Wars.

And yet the wars continue. ”

-Watchmen, Alan Moore

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“Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do; Devise reason later. Born from Oblivion, bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into Oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random; has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it too long; no meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.”

-Watchmen, Alan Moore

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“I held the boy's body between my hands
for a moment it was like
making love
the bones of my fingers resting
between the bones of his ribcages
I held him there
I guess we both felt safe
For a split second
but then he grew
stiff and then he resisted
so I pushed
up against him
I pushed until the wall
of his body vanished
into the air so thick
it was due to eat both of us up
sooner or later.”

-The Voices Of The Fallers, Cherríe L. Moraga

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“Teach us to numb ourselves,
teach us not to feel.
The memory does not come easy.
It comes with screams that will not stop,
It comes with tears and terror,
It comes with shame that I felt this.
It comes with shame that I feel this.”

-Yarrow Morgan

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“How to keep people at arm's length
And never get too close
How to mistrust the ones you
Supposedly love the most
How to pretend you're fine
And don't need help from anyone
How to feel worthless
Unless you're serving or helping someone ”

-Eight Easy Steps, Alanis Morissette

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“I'm sad, but I'm laughing.”

-Hand In My Pocket, Alanis Morissette

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“I've never wanted something rational.”

-Head Over Feet, Alanis Morissette

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