Quotes By Letter: V

“I realized since leaving Samantha, there was a part of me that had never stopped grieving. And all this time, it was not Samantha for whom I had often woken up sobbing, but for my self, for the plague of indifference that had kept me from her all these years. Like a ship, I had dropped anchor in the middle of the sea. I had chosen quietly to rot.”

-The Secret Lives of People In Love, Simon Van Booy

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“Fight till you can fight no more, scream till you can scream no more, breathe till you can breathe no more. Then listen to your heartbeat in the darkness.”

-Ali Solenarian Van Dam

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“beautiful red blood is leaving my veins
running out of my hands
dripping on the floor
I'm bleeding and it feels good
like my release finally arrived
beautiful red is surrounding me
no threats, no fears, just free at last

beautiful red blood is fading to black
no I cannot see, I'm losing my life
beautiful red is all I can see
suffocating, I cannot breath
falling, I cannot stand
no regrets, facing my death

beautiful red
dripping down

drip drip, losing my beautiful red
just a body dripping to death, just a soul, finding it's way
no regrets, I'll see my friends again

beautiful red blood is what I've seen
pain in my life is what I've felt
hate for stupid is what I've shown
I lived my life and now I'm gone

beautiful red
dripping down.”

-Beautiful Red, Astrid Van der Veen

Recommended by Darcy.

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“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”

-Laurens Van du Post

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“I wish they would only take me as I am.”

-Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

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“There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their 'discomfort' like a favorite shirt. I can't say I'm very pleased with where my life is just now... but I can't help but look forward to where it's going.”

-Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Jhonen Vasquez

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“I'd like to help you doctor, yes I really really would
But the din in my head - it's too much and it's no good
I'm standing in a windy tunnel shouting through the roar
And I'd like to give the information you're asking for
But blood makes noise, it's ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise and I can't really hear you in the thickening of fear.”

-Blood Makes Noise, Suzanne Vega

Recommended by Shay.

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“When blood sees blood of its own
It sings to see itself again
It sings to hear the voice it's known
It sings to recognize the face.”

-Blood Sings, Suzanne Vega

Recommended by Shay.

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“Watch while the queen in one false move
Turns herself into a pawn
Sleepy and shaken and watching while the blurry night
Turns into a very clear dawn.”

-Knight Moves, Suzanne Vega

Recommended by Shay.

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“And she said, 'I've swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside, and often I've bled.'”

-The Queen And The Soldier, Suzanne Vega

Recommended by Rosie.

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“She said, 'You won't understand, and you may as well not try'
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan.”

-The Queen And The Soldier, Suzanne Vega

Recommended by Rosie.

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“When you're abused like that, you know you've touched the stars.”

-Velvet Goldmine [movie]

Recommended by beck.

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“There's always someone out there dying to have the circumstances you consider problems.”

-Heather Venrick

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“Don't tell me
How to be
'Cause I like some suffering
Don't ask me
What I need
I'm just fine
Here finding
Me.”

-Finding Me, Vertical Horizon

Recommended by Darci.

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“For the life of me, I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise
And we'd never compromise.

For the life of me, I cannot believe
We'd ever die for these sins.
We were merely Freshmen.”

-Freshmen, The Verve Pipe

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“Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'”

-Minor Poems, Copa, Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

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“'What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.'

'Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a thirteen year old girl.'”

-The Virgin Suicides [movie]

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“What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality.”

-The Virgin Suicides [movie]

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“You ask me, how am I?
Well I'm still standing, aren't I?
That's something, that's one thing that's gone my way
It's so hard, to go out, like everything ok now
When inside, I still cry for yesterday.”

-Unhappy Anniversary, Vitamin C

Recommended by Rosie.

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“'Do you believe that men have always slaughtered each other as they do today, that they've always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates and thieves, weak, fickle, cowardly, envious, greedy, drunken, miserly, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, lecherous, fanatical, hypocritical and foolish?'

'Do you believe that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they find them?'

'Yes, of course.'

'Well, then, if hawks have always had the same character, what makes you think men have changed theirs?'”

-Candide, Voltaire

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“'What's optimism?'

'Alas, it's a mania for insisting that everything is all right when everything is going wrong.'”

-Candide, Voltaire

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“'[I]s there not pleasure in criticizing, in finding faults where other men think they see beauty?'
'That is to say,' said Martin, 'that there is pleasure in not being pleased.'”

-Candide, Volatire

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“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

-Discours en vers sur l'homme, Voltaire

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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

-Letter to Frederick William, Prince of Russia, Voltaire

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“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

-Notebooks, Voltaire

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