The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the veins. Its camera is an X-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:R.S. ThomasSource:Reflections
Link to full quote: Quote #1668 from Reflections by R.S. Thomas.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Rabindrath Tagore
Link to full quote: Quote #1085 by Rabindrath Tagore.
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Rabindrath TagoreSource:Stray Birds
Link to full quote: Quote #520 from Stray Birds by Rabindrath Tagore.
There was Wanda, the struggling Polish painter; dark for a Pole with her short, stiff black hair, and her dusky skin, and her colourless lips; yet not withal unattractive, this Wanda. She had wonderful eyes that held fire in their depths, hell-fire at times, if she had been drinking; but at other times a more gentle flame; although never one that it was safe to play with. Wanda saw largely. All that she envisaged was immense: her pictures, her passions, her remorses. She craved with a wellnigh insatiable craving, she feared with a wellnigh intolerable terror - not the devil, she was brave with him when in her cups, but God in the person of Christ the Redeemer. Like a whipped cur she crawled to the foot of the Cross, without courage, without faith, without hope of mercy. Outraged by her body she must ruthlessly scourge it - no good, the lust of the eye would betray her. Seeing she desired and desiring she drank, seeking to drown one lust in another. And then she would stand up before her tall easel, swaying a little but with hand always steady. The brandy went into her legs, not her hands; her hands would remain disconcertingly steady. She would start some gigantic and heart-broken daub, struggling to lose herself in her picture, struggling to ease the ache of her passion by smearing the placid white face of the canvas with ungainly yet strangely arresting forms - according to Dupont, Wanda had genius.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Radclyffe HallSource:The Well of Loneliness
Link to full quote: Quote #1397 from The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.
I keep the wolf from the door
But he calls me up, calls me on the phone
Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Radiohead
Link to full quote: Quote #1479 from Wolf At the Door (It Girl. Rag Doll.) by Radiohead.
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday every hour wish that I was bullet proof.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:RadioheadSource:Bulletproof... I Wish I Was
Link to full quote: Quote #978 from Bulletproof... I Wish I Was by Radiohead.
I want to
I want to be someone else or I'll explode
Floating upon this surface for the birds
The birds
The birdsYou want me?
Fucking, well come and find me
I'll be waiting
With a gun and a pack of sandwichesAnd nothing
Nothing
Nothing
NothingYou want me?
Well, come on and break the door down
You want me?
Fucking come on and break the door downI'm ready.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:RadioheadSource:Talk Show Host
Link to full quote: Quote #888 from Talk Show Host by Radiohead.
Where do we go from here?
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — Gabrielle
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now, when I need you.
Link to full quote: Quote #876 from The Bends by Radiohead.
Shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twitch, legs are going,
don't get sentimental, it always ends up drivel.
One day, I'm gonna grow wings,
a chemical reaction,
hysterical and useless
hysterical andlet down and hanging around,
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — Gabrielle
crushed like a bug in the ground.
Let down and hanging around.
Link to full quote: Quote #516 from Let Down by Radiohead.
A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:RadioheadSource:No Surprises
Link to full quote: Quote #515 from No Surprises by Radiohead.
I don't care if it hurts,
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — Gabrielle
I want to have control.
I want a perfect body,
I want a perfect soul.
I want you to notice,
when I'm not around.
You're so fucking special,
I wish I was special.
Link to full quote: Quote #349 from Creep by Radiohead.
Jump out of bed as soon as you hear the alarm clock!You may also find it useful spending five minutes eachmorning saying to yourself: 'everyday in every way Iam getting better and better.' perhaps it is a good ideato start a new day with the right frame of mind.the jacket beats like a heart gone sour,Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:RadioheadSource:'OK COMPUTER' CD cover
Link to full quote: Quote #129 from 'OK COMPUTER' CD cover by Radiohead.
Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas,
I sing to you, almost fatal birds of the soul,
knowing what you are.Submitted on Friday, December 25, 2009 - 00:54 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Rainer Maria RilkeSource:Duino Elegies
Link to full quote: Quote #2404 from Duino Elegies from Rainer Maria Rilke.
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Rainer Maria RilkeSource:Letters to a Young Poet
Link to full quote: Quote #1520 from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.
If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Rainer Maria RilkeSource:Letters to a Young Poet
Link to full quote: Quote #1521 from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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