Quotes

I used to have a regular feature on loafe for quotes, because I like them. I don’t anymore. I mean, I like them still, but I don’t have a regular feature on loafe. so instead I’ll make a page showcasing some of the ones I’ve cut and pasted over the years.

I used to watch pornography, now I sit and wonder, “what ringtone describes me as a person?”
-fineous j humpington III

And I think the world of myself
But the world doesn’t think much of me.
-brandi carlile “fall apart again”

“when men fuck our cunts against our will, we often feel like a diarrhea shit has been offed upon the very essence of our soul, and may live the rest of our days cleaning it off in whatever way we see fit.” -Inga Muscio

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. -Louis Agassiz

It is the very meaning of her journey, why she has traveled so far, what she has come to declare: the dissatisfaction that will keep her life at bay. -Vivian Gornick

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. -David Byrn

Let us live and love, my Lesbia, and value at a penny the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there’s the sleep of one everlasting night. Give me a thousand kisses. -Caius Valerius Catullu

To be nobody-but-myself–in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody else–means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. -e.e. cummings

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. -Margaret Atwood

did you ever wish you were somebody else, or else just nobody, nothing, nothing at all? -raymond carver

i think v-8 would be like drinking cold thick blood. -gina b

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

i think that gravity is working extra hard these days and it’s pissing me off. -theresa m
gravity always wins. -radiohead

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand…and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. -Maire Edith Beynon

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. -carl sandburg
you taste like ashes. -dru on buffy the vampire slayer

don’t ever tell anybody anything. if you do, you start missing everybody. -holden caulfield (jd salinger)

I love robots. Especially little ones with wheels and little ones with legs and that walk like spiders. -l.d.

I tell you: One must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you. -Nietzsche

I hate and love. You may ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it and am in torment. -Caius Valerius Catullu

Deep inside each one of us is someone striving to do absolutely nothing. -anonymous

“It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.” ~ Caius Valerius Catullus

i’m in love with my poop, maybe. -lazy dave

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -Stephen Roberts

I just ejaculated and peed, simultaneously, upon receiving this email. -anonymous

He will not be afraid of the destructive act: half the house will have to come down. This way he will grow virtuously into wisdom. -C.P. Cavafy