Quotes By Letter: S

“Pain pays the income of each precious thing.”

-The Rape of Lucrece, William Shakespeare

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“'Tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit.”

-The Taming Of The Shrew, William Shakespeare

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“Nay, I have offer'd all; I have no more; And she can have
no more than all I have; If you like me, she shall have me and mine.”

-The Taming Of The Shrew, William Shakespeare

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“What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?”

-The Tempest, William Shakespeare

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“Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”

-Venus And Adonis, William Shakespeare

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“sechita / had learned to make allowances for the distortions/ but the heavy dust of the delta/ left a tinge of grit n darkness/ on every one of her dresses/ on her arms & her shoulders/ sechita/ waz anxious to get back to st. louis/ the dirt there didnt crawl from the earth into yr soul/ at least/ in st. louis/ the grime waz store bought second-hand/ here in natchez/ god seemed to be wipin his feet in her face/”

-For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange

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“I wake up in the morning and the sun is shining,
But I barely have the strength to close the curtain
Stop the sun from hurting my black hole
Everything's an effort when you doubt the purpose of your soul.”

-Sleep Forever, Bree Sharp

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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

-Annajanska, George Bernard Shaw

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“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

-Ode to the West Wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“For there are ... sufferings which have no tongue.”

-The Cenci, Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East,
A white and shapeless mass—”

-The Waning Moon, Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“And I'm staring down the barrel of a 45,
Swimming through the ashes of another life
No real reason to accept the way things have changed
Staring down the barrel of a 45.”

-45, Shinedown

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“Send away for a priceless gift
One not subtle, one not on the list
Send away for a perfect world
One not simply, so absurd
In these times of doing what you're told
You keep these feelings, no one knows
What ever happened to the young man's heart
Swallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart

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Send a message to the unborn child
Keep your eyes open for a while
In a box high up on the shelf, left for you, no one else
There's a piece of a puzzle known as life
Wrapped in guilt, sealed up tight.”

-45, Shinedown

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“There's nothing ever wrong but nothing's ever right
Such a cruel contradiction
I know I cross the lines its not easy to define
I'm born to indecision
There's always something new some path I'm supposed to choose
With no particular rhyme or reason.”

-Burning Bright, Shinedown

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“This day could be the worst one yet
I just won't relax I can't catch my breath
Because I'm sick and tired of you'll be fine
Well how do you know, can you read minds

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Have you ever felt lost inside so unloved within that you almost die
Have you ever stepped out of the light and realized there's a stranger inside.”

-Stranger Inside, Shinedown

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“Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And the worst part is
There's no-one else to blame.”

-Breathe Me, Sia

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“Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I've lost myself again and I feel unsafe .”

-Breathe Me, Sia

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“It is too heavy, says the paper. You lack restraint. I was sleeping in whiteness, crowns of snow, and you woke me and told me your dream, my blank face upturned, listening. Large thing, heavy, and there is a river, we must cross it together. I was sleeping and you woke me I am not safe my doors don’t lock. You came to me while we were sleeping, we were both sleeping, and there is a river and you asked me to hold this for you. I am holding this for you. It is heavy and the river rolls over in its bed. Black river and the seedpods of your dreaming blossom while you are gone and I am here alone, my painted face singing. You say you are doing one thing but you are doing another and you are gone and you leave the paint and the paint is thick and heavy. You have overpainted again, and again the river to cross, and again the blossoms of your dreaming. Too big, huge and heavy, they bloom, keep blooming, lilac and magnolia and jasmine and tuber rose. Wash me. You were sleeping in darkness, batwing and treeshadow, there is no river but we must cross it together. Wipe my face you must trust me you have painted over the dream the paper remembers, the first strokes, the original landscape. The paper always remembers, says the paper.”

-Richard Siken

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“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.”

-Scheherazade, Richard Siken

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“You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired. You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you didn't even have a name for.”

-You Are Jeff, Richard Siken

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“I do wish we could chat longer but I'm having an old friend for dinner.”

-The Silence Of The Lambs [movie]

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“Abuse victims are always the best actors. They have to be, to live their whole lives with the pain and shame, pretending there is nothing wrong. It's the greatest performance of all.”

-Silent Fall [movie]

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“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”

-Beverly Sills

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“Couldn't care less if I died right now
Who am I? I don't know you tell me
You seem to know everything else.”

-No Association

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“I don't want to be lonely,
I just want to be alone.”

-Across The Night, Silverchair

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