Quotes from your favorite books

[Flying Dutch]

Originally Posted by WildWill

Come on - BOOK quotes, not movie quotes please!

So if there is a good quotation from a movie it's not allowed to post it here..., and anyway all movies are based on books for sure...,

[WildWill]

Well, the thread IS titled Quotes from BOOKS! I know, if you want to post movie quotes, start a new thread called "Your Favorite Quotes from Movies!" I'm sure there will be a lot of responses, it's a popular message board meme.

[delta9THC]

Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Milton - Paradise Lost

[my_scatterheart]

Great thread, I've so many...
"Caught up in a mass of abstractions, our attention hypnotized by a host of human-made technologies that only reflect us back to ourselves, it is all too easy for us to forget our carnal inherence in a more-than-human matrix of sensations and sensibilities. Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate earth - our eyes have evolved in subtle interaction with other eyes, as our ears are attuned by their very structure to the howling of wolves and the honking of geese. To shut ourselves off from these other voices, to continue by our lifestyles to condemn these other sensibilities to the oblivion of extinction, is to rob our own senses of their integrity, and to rob our minds of their coherence. We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human."
-The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram

"The people I got to know—aboriginal people in Malaysia,...they enjoyed life, they lived life. Life did not live them, as happens to us."
-Original Wisdom, Robert Wolff

"The depth of our identity is dependent upon the depth of our attention."
-Crossing the Unknown Sea : Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, David Whyte

"Bread, life, and love are fused in the soul of human experience."
-Becoming Bread, Gunilla Norris

"We are all of us very arrogant and conceited about running down other people's ghosts but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own."
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig

got a little carried away, just a few random quotes from recent reads in the past couple weeks.

[Mr.Tree]

why was he putting movie quotes in a book quotes thread?

[WildWill]

Originally Posted by Mr.Tree

why was he putting movie quotes in a book quotes thread?

And then complaining about it? I dunno, lack of reading comprehension? Really good bud? Who knows.

[Flying Dutch]

No arguments pals..., I really dont learn by heart many of book quatations..., but i can watch movies wich i like many times and learn them hearing them..., but ok i'm sorry..., when I learn some books quotes I will put them here immediately... And I had to write that it was not from movie Troy, but from the book..., it would be more convincing...

[WildWill]

No problems mate.

Maybe I'll start a movie quote thread.

[Ziggy Fry]

"The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing."

-The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy

Sin.Ziggy.

[matthewmunari]

"It wasn't a baby, cassie"
humans can't reproduce here; nothing human can ever be born in hell, what you saw was a hybrid" "she probably got raped by a gargoyle or city-imp"


cassie boarded the train, i really think newark was worst, she muttered, the scene looed normal at first, but then cassie took a harder look. the trees were twisted and deformed, faces seemed imprinted in the pestiferous bark

many of the pedestrians milling about displayed an array of difigure ments...emaciation, evidence of incalcable destitution; and some weren't even human. some were trolls, some demons or bizarre hybrids..the 'normal' fountsi gushed blood, and the statue behind it was of josef stalin...who'd starved millions of his own ppl to death cause they were jews

welcome to the mephistophles

[Flying Dutch]

"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It's more than government. It's almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you built up a wall of friendships, you wouldn't have to ask me for help." Don Vito Carleone, Godfather, Mario Puzo

I don't know if this quote sounded in the movie or not, but I give my word that i read it in the book!!! I'm sorry If the same was in the movie...

[Man in Black]

"What! all of us, Christians, not only profess to love one another,
but do actually live one common life; we whose social existence
beats with one common pulse--we aid one another, learn from one
another, draw ever closer to one another to our mutual happiness,
and find in this closeness the whole meaning of life!--and to-
morrow some crazy ruler will say some stupidity, and another will
answer in the same spirit, and then I must go expose myself to
being murdered, and murder men--who have done me no harm--and more
than that, whom I love. And this is not a remote contingency, but
the very thing we are all preparing for, which is not only
probable, but an inevitable certainty."

"Still there are people who believe in this, busy themselves over
peace congresses, read addresses, and write books. And
governments, we may be quite sure, express their sympathy and make
a show of encouraging them. In the same way they pretend to
support temperance societies, while they are living principally on
the drunkenness of the people; and pretend to encourage education,
when their whole strength is based on ignorance; and to support
constitutional freedom, when their strength rests on the absence
of freedom; and to be anxious for the improvement of the condition
of the working classes, when their very existence depends on their
oppression; and to support Christianity, when Christianity
destroys all government.

To be able to do this they have long ago elaborated methods
encouraging temperance, which cannot suppress drunkenness; methods
of supporting education, which not only fail to prevent ignorance,
but even increase it; methods of aiming at freedom and
constitutionalism, which are no hindrance to despotism; methods of
protecting the working classes, which will not free them from
slavery; and a Christianity, too, they have elaborated, which does
not destroy, but supports governments."

"The destiny of a whole generation depends on the hour in which
some ill-fated politician may give the signal that will be
followed. We know that the best of us will be cut down and our
work will be destroyed in embryo. WE KNOW IT AND TREMBLE WITH
RAGE, BUT WE CAN DO NOTHING. We are held fast in the toils of
officialdom and red tape, and too rude a shock would be needed
to set us free. We are enslaved by the laws we set up for our
protection, which have become our oppression. WE ARE BUT THE
TOOLS OF THAT AUTOCRATIC ABSTRACTION OF THE STATE, WHICH ENSLAVES EACH INDIVIDUAL IN THE NAME OF THE WILL OF ALL, WHO
WOULD ALL, TAKEN INDIVIDUALLY, DESIRE EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY WILL BE MADE TO DO."

The Kingdom of God is Within You-Leo Tolstoy

[mr.nobody]

--If I had a Luger, I thought, I could drill the bastards. I leaned on one elbow and pointed a finger at the window, seeing what kind of shot I would get. Perfect. There was just enough light in the street for a good silhouette. I knew it would happen quickly, I'd have no choice : just pull the trigger and go deaf from the terrible noise, a frenzy of screaming and scratching followed by the ghastly thump of a body knocked back down to the sidewalk. There would be a mod, of course, and I'd probably have to shoot a few in self defense. Then the cops would arrive and that would be it. They'd recognize me and probably kill me right there in the apartment.

Jesus, I thought, I'm doomed. I'll never get out of here alive. I thought I saw things moving on the ceiling and voices in the alley were calling my name. I began to tremble and sweat. and then I fell into a twisted delirium--

The Rum Diary-Hunter S.

They were supposed to be working on a movie, it was before Hunter died so I dunno if its still greenlit.

[Bad dog]

We had the odd feeling that he was not really pleased to see us. However, three days later his body was found riddled with bullets in a thicket, and it hardly seemed respectful to the dead to go on doubting him. As usual, it was the partisans who were held responsible for the murder, although some people did, indeed, raise their eyebrows in the direction of Porta and Tiny. In the end they had to take the extreme measure of attending the Captain's funeral in order to prove their innocence.
From Reign Of Hell:

Away to my left, Gregor was in the middle of telling Lenzing the long and garbled story of how he had once moved a grand piano from the fifth floor of a house down a spiral staircase without getting so much as a scratch on it. Somehow a brothel and a naked Swedish whore with breasts like pumpkins came into the story as well, but for the life of me I couldn't make out quite how, and neither, from the look on his face, could Lenzing.
From Blitzfreeze:

He was posted to a miserable frontier district, where the people were so suspicious of one another that they took their bikes in to church with them, which is a thing they do in certain parts of France...
From Comrades Of War:

(Tiny at the whorehouse in Hamburg.)

Hello girls, here I am again. Hot as hell. My balls are boiling. I love you. Let's get something to drink in a hurry, and then we'll go to the bunks according to good custom when decent people meet

[superstoned1]

"Slowly, like moisture entering the dying tree trunk, slowly filling and rotting it, so did the world and inertia creep into Siddhartha's soul; it slowly filled his soul, made it heavy, made it tired, sent it to sleep"
Siddartha, Herman Hesse.

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
Victor Hugo

"An army is a strange composite masterpiece, which strength results from an enormous sum total of utter weaknesses. Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity in spite of humanity."
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.



"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
VICTOR HUGO, Histoire d'un crime


"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it."
Herman Hesse

“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
Herman Hesse, Siddartha

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."
Voltaire

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

[Man in Black]

Originally Posted by superstoned1

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

a great quote from one of my favorite books. it's been so long since I read it but I still remember it.

[Man in Black]

"They slept together on the first night, side by side in the dark, their arms around one another. The shadows in the corner were trimmed and shapely in her presence, losing their old deformity. And the stars looked in upon them and shone in their eyes.

Tomorrow you must tell me what you dream, he said.

It will be what I have always dreamed, she said. Walking on a little length of grass, up and down, up and down, till my feet bleed. Seven images of me walking up and down.

It is what I dream. Seven is a number in magic.
Magic? she said

A woman makes a wax man, put a pin in its chest; and the man dies. Someone has a little devil, tells it what to do. A girl dies, you see her walk. A woman turns into a hill.

She let her head rest on his shoulder, and fell to sleep.

He kissed her mouth, and passed his hand through her hair. She was asleep, but he did not sleep. Wide awake, he stared into darkness. Now he was drowned in terror, and the sucking waters closed over his skull.

I, I have a devil, he said.

She stirred at the noise of his voice, and then again her head was motionless and her body straight along the curves of the cool bed.

I have a devil, but I do not tell it what to do. It lifts my hand. I write. The words spring into life. She, then, is a woman of the devil.

She made a contented sound, nestled even nearer to him. Her breath was warm on his neck, and her foot lay on his like a mouse. He saw that she was beautiful in her sleep. Her beauty could not have sprouted out of evil. God, whom he had searched for in his loneliness, had formed her for his mate as Eve for Adam out of Adam's rib.

He kissed her again, and saw her smile as she slept.

God at my side, he said."



"That night he told of the love in the garden of Eden.

A garden was planted eastward, and Adam lived in it. Eve was made for him, out of him, bone of his bones, flesh of his flesh. They were as naked as you upon the seashore, but Eve could not have been as beautiful. They ate with the devil, and saw that they were naked, and covered up their nakedness. In their good bodies they saw evil for the first time.

Then you saw evil in me, she said, when I was naked. I would as soon be naked as be clothed. Why did you cover up my nakedness?

It was not good to look upon, he said.

But it was beautiful. You yourself said that it was beautiful, she said.

It was not good to look upon.

You said the body of Eve was good. And yet you say I was not good to look upon. Why did you cover up my nakedness?

It was not good to look upon."




"Awake, girl, he said. I am your lover come in the night.
She awoke at his voice.
Who called me?
I called you.
Where are you?
I am upon the pillow by your head, speaking into your ear.
Who are you?
I am a voice.
Stop calling into my ear, then, and hop into my hand so that I may touch you and tickle you. Hop into my hand, voice.
He lay still and warm in her palm.
Where are you?
I am in your hand.
Which hand?
The hand on your breast, left hand. Do not make a fist or you will crush me. Can you not feel me warm in your hand? I am close to the roots of your fingers.
Talk to me.
I had a body, but was always a voice. As I truly am, I come to you in the night, a voice on your pillow.
I know what you are. You are the still, small voice I must not listen to. I have been told not to listen to that still, small voice that speaks in the night. It is wicked to listen. You must not come here again. You must go away.
But I am your lover.
I must not listen, said the girl, and suddenly clenched her hand."

All from "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas. Same short story I quoted in my sig. One of my favorites.

[GirlsHateMe]

I learned a lot of secrets that summer: you can bury freedom but you can't kill it. Taylor Jackson died for freedom. Aunt Lucille had to kill to get it. Life and death are only temporary but freedom goes on forever.

-crazy in alabama