Chaos Quotes - Page 32

• Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, Thinking, Sometimes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves, and then sleep in the earth. And when we're there, we'll belong, 'cause the earth don't give a damn if you're lost.

  Radical Face

  Sleep, Cutting, Giving

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• Life alone can rekindle life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

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• When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Rooms, Humming

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

  Elliott Smith

  Cities, People, Faces

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, Effort, Trying

  "Fictional character: R.P. McMurphy". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

  Sarah Kane

  Reality, Mind, Body

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.209, A&C Black

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• Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Hurt, Hands

  Charles D'Ambrosio (2006). “The Dead Fish Museum”, p.62, Vintage

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• Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ice, Rivers, Existence

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• Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.

  Ben Weaver

  Firefly, Fog, Halls

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• Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

  William Dunbar

  Fear Of Death

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• I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Believe, Knowing, Dying

  "Synecdoche, New York". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The end is built into the beginning.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Ends, Built

  Charlie Kaufman (2008). “Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• There has to be pain. That's the rule.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain

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• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, World, Ends

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• I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

  Franz Kafka

  Empty, Uncertain, Feels

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot see that there is a banquet because seeing the banquet requires that we see also ourselves sitting there starving-seeing ourselves clearly, even for a moment, is shattering. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dream, People, Sitting

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• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  Two, Silence, Chance

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

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• We can know ourselves only because we can remember.

  John Ratey

  Remember, Knows

  John J. Ratey, M.D. (2001). “A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain”, p.185, Vintage

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• If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.

  Ben Weaver

  Lying, Use, Said

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• Silence is also conversation.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Conversation, Silence Is

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• We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

  William Faulkner

  Evil, Done, Littles

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

  Gregory Alan Isakov

  Past, Way, Faces

  Song: Big Black Car

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• I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'

  Ben Weaver

  Love You, Said, What You Love

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• It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Thinking, Ought

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