"During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence"

-- Edith Hahn Beer

#Butterfly Quotes #Night Quotes #Long Quotes

“He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, â€œI may not have the right, Silence, me love,â€ he drawled so soft she nearly didnâ€™t catch the words. â€œBut I wouldâ€™ve listened to ye. I wouldâ€™ve believed ye.”
“'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.”
“Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.”
“Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “Escape from Evil”, Free Press
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.”
“Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.”

Source : "Song: "Bonita Applebum" ("People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm")". 1990.
“Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.”

Source : "Get Up, Stand Up". www.imdb.com. (2003-).

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