I have strength enough, enough to forgive
I desire peace where I liveSubmitted on Friday, February 26, 2010 - 10:47 — burgundybabeWho Said It?:Mad SeasonSource:I'm Above
Link to full quote: Quote #2475 from I'm Above by Mad Season.
i've been trying to give myself reasons to live
and i really can't think of one thingi drive around, i walk around in circles
'cause i've got no sense of direction
and i guess i've got no sense at all.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Magnetic FieldsSource:All the Umbrellas in London
Link to full quote: Quote #1282 from All the Umbrellas in London by Magnetic Fields.
I can't stop thinking about
Cutting myself up.
Visual bruises can be covered with make-up.
But down to the core,
I'm all bruises.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Majanda DelfinoSource:Bruises
Link to full quote: Quote #209 from Bruises by Majanda Delfino.
How do you live with your self?
How could you possibly hurt someone like myself?
The saddest part, though, is I would take you back.
You've turned me into some spineless hypochondriac.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Majanda DelfinoSource:Bruises
Link to full quote: Quote #210 from Bruises by Majanda Delfino.
Why do you decide to run these circles
bruised around my thighs?
Sleepless nights the bleeding clots
Why your eyes encapture my thoughts?Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Majanda DelfinoSource:Siren
Link to full quote: Quote #211 from Siren by Majanda Delfino.
Only the old are innocent. that is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is the property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Malcolm BradburySource:Stepping Westward
Link to full quote: Quote #1683 from Stepping Westward by Malcolm Bradbury.
Abre tus alas, deja tus sueños volar.
(open your wings, let your dreams fly)
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:ManáSource:Angel de Amor
Link to full quote: Quote #510 from Angel de Amor by Maná.
I am just a fashion accessory
People send postcards
And they all hope I'm feeling well
I retreat into self-pity, it's so easy
Where they patronise my misery.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Manic Street PreachersSource:La Tristesse Durera
Link to full quote: Quote #1457 from La Tristesse Durera by Manic Street Preachers.
And all the drugs in the world
Can't save us from ourselves.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Manic Street PreachersSource:There by the Grace of God
Link to full quote: Quote #1065 from There by the Grace of God by Manic Street Preachers.
You're tender and you're tired
You can't be bothered to decide
Whether you live or die
Or just forget about your life
Drift away and die
Never say goodbye.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Manic Street PreachersSource:You're Tender and You're Tired
Link to full quote: Quote #517 from You're Tender and You're Tired by Manic Street Preachers.
Kate and Kristin and kit kat.
All things I like looking at.
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die.
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life.I choose, my choice, I starve to frenzy.
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires.
Legs bend, stockinged I am twiggy.
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me.Self-worth scatters, self esteem's a bore.
I long since moved to a higher plateau.
This discipline's so rare so please applaud.
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me.Yeh 4st 7, an epilogue of youth.
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse.
I've finally come to understand life.
Through staring blankly at my navel.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Manic Street PreachersSource:4st. 7lbs.
Link to full quote: Quote #514 from 4st. 7lbs. by Manic Street Preachers.
Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Manic Street PreachersSource:Faster
Link to full quote: Quote #424 from Faster by Manic Street Preachers.
I eat too much to die
and not enough to stay alive.
I'm sitting in the middle
Waiting.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Manic Street PreachersSource:4st. 7lbs.
Link to full quote: Quote #312 from 4st. 7lbs. by Manic Street Preachers.
For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself. Very often, those who conceal this possession from the world do so only from the fear that the beloved object may be taken from them. And their happiness is diminished by this prudent reticence.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Marcel ProustSource:The Captive
Link to full quote: Quote #2110 from The Captive by Marcel Proust.
On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
(We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.)
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Marcel ProustSource:Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone
Link to full quote: Quote #254 from Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust.
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