Life begins when you accept your fate.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Bad ReligionSource:Shattered Faith
Link to full quote: Quote #271 from Shattered Faith by Bad Religion.
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.
Submitted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 23:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Banana YoshimotoSource:Kitchen
Link to full quote: Quote #2213 from Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
Life is a performance,, I thought. Perhaps the word 'illusion' would have meant more or less the same thing, but to me 'performance' seemed closed to the truth. Standing there in the midst of the crowd that evening, I felt this realization swirl dizzily through my body in a dazzling splendor of light, if only for an instant. Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
Submitted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 23:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Banana YoshimotoSource:Goodbye Tsugumi
Link to full quote: Quote #2212 from Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto.
Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with.
Submitted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 23:17 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Banana YoshimotoSource:Hardboiled and Hard Luck
Link to full quote: Quote #2211 from Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto.
Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.
Submitted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 23:16 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Banana YoshimotoSource:Goodbye Tsugumi
Link to full quote: Quote #2210 from Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto.
I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
Submitted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 23:14 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Banana YoshimotoSource:N.P.
Link to full quote: Quote #2209 from N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto.
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
Submitted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 23:12 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Banana YoshimotoSource:Kitchen
Link to full quote: Quote #2209 from Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
But I don't happen to agree. If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Barbara KingsolverSource:The Poisonwood Bible
Link to full quote: Quote #1076 from The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
It's like a dream you try to remember but it's gone
Then you try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn
When you try to see the world beyond your front door.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Barenaked LadiesSource:Pinch Me
Link to full quote: Quote #1428 from Pinch Me by Barenaked Ladies.
Pinch me, pinch me because I'm still asleep
Please God, tell me that I'm still asleep.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Barenaked LadiesSource:Pinch Me
Link to full quote: Quote #1429 from Pinch Me by Barenaked Ladies.
My hands are locked up tight in fists
My mind is racing filled with lists
Of things to do and things I've done
Another sleepless night's begun.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Barenaked LadiesSource:Who Needs Sleep
Link to full quote: Quote #1430 from Who Needs Sleep by Barenaked Ladies.
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
Submitted on Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 18:23 — 0so2facedWho Said It?:Barry LopezSource:Arctic Dreams
Link to full quote: Quote #2256 from Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez.
Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:bell hooksSource:Communion
Link to full quote: Quote #1418 from Communion by bell hooks.
And in the first moment of her waking up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
When the first cup of coffee tastes like washing up
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it
She goes to the mirror to put on her stuff
She knows she's losing it, oh yeah she's losing it
When she doesn't speak to anyone till four o' clock
She knows she's losing it, yeah she's losing it.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Belle & SebastianSource:She's Losing It
Link to full quote: Quote #1431 from She's Losing It by Belle & Sebastian.
She saw the future, she heard voices from inside
The kind of voices she would soon learn to deny
Because at home they got her slapped.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Ben FoldsSource:Zak and Sara
Link to full quote: Quote #1077 from Zak and Sara by Ben Folds.
