Little tidbits of glory wrapped up in a single page.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Lord of Light wants them burned. The Drowned God wants them drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Where is the god of tits and wine?
Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones (S2E8)
Great question, Tyrion. Great question.
Flee from the dangers of sleeping in the arms of a witch; let her not hold you close to her. She will make you disregard the assemblies of the people and the words of the prince; you will refuse to eat and shun the company of other men, and you will feel sad when you go to your bed.
from the Norse Prose Edda (via spectralradiance) (via spectralradiance)
I’ll never understand how people deal with death, why they can’t just…put it in its place.
Dexter Morgan, Dexter (Season 2, Episode 2: “Waiting to Exhale”)
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them, but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?
Socrates
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Being & Nothingness
God is not good. Oh, in the beginning when he repented that he had made humankind and then flooded the Earth…why? What had they done to deserve annihilation? What could they have done to deserve such wholesale slaughter? What could they have done that was so bad? God is not good. When God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son he should have said, ‘No!’ We should have taught God the justice that was in our hearts. He is not good. He has simply been strong.
God On Trial
He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome, ‘Do your worst, for I will do mine!’ Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!
Edmond Dantés, The Count of Monte Cristo
…when he saw the kid standing there looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world.
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien (via metaconscious)
Can I pull out all the stops,
And get out of this town?
I want to make you proud,
But I really don’t know how.
I know it’s not helping to hear me say,
“I wish it was me in the car that day.”
Though something made me stop and think of what you said.
You know it meant a lot,
But I was just a kid,
One with all these dreams of growing up and playing music on the road.
I’ve been screaming all these years and thinking of you both.
The Dangerous Summer, The Permanent Rain
Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe go fuck yourself.
Detective Sergeant Dignam, The Departed
