"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting on the wind."
~Lauren Oliver
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Quote #303
"Every step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #301
"I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly, it makes me stop remembering."
~Albert Borris
~Albert Borris
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Quote #300
300th quote! Doing the same thing as always! Here's a quote from my novel, The Girl In Gray!
"I hated those memories. I thought I had forgotten them, but then they'd pop back up, and every resurfacing memory was like a gash to the heart. Waking up in the morning with a new forgotten memory, with the newest realization in a long line of realizations, being reminded of that thing that is gone from your life, your heart, that is the pain that kills. And it is the moment when the killing pain hits, that you realize you will do anything to escape it, to escape the endless loop in your head repeating gone, gone, gone, and that terrible detachment that leaves you free-floating through the empty void of consciousness with no foreseeable end in sight. You hate those memories, but they are the only things that keep you alive."
~Jacquelyn McIlvain, 'The Girl In Gray'
"I hated those memories. I thought I had forgotten them, but then they'd pop back up, and every resurfacing memory was like a gash to the heart. Waking up in the morning with a new forgotten memory, with the newest realization in a long line of realizations, being reminded of that thing that is gone from your life, your heart, that is the pain that kills. And it is the moment when the killing pain hits, that you realize you will do anything to escape it, to escape the endless loop in your head repeating gone, gone, gone, and that terrible detachment that leaves you free-floating through the empty void of consciousness with no foreseeable end in sight. You hate those memories, but they are the only things that keep you alive."
~Jacquelyn McIlvain, 'The Girl In Gray'
Quote #298
"Forgotten? No, we never do forget,
We let the years go,
We let the years go,
Wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them carefully by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-
But we do not forget, and never can forget."
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them carefully by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-
But we do not forget, and never can forget."
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Quote #297
"Forget the names because names lie but remember me because when you look at me, I remember myself. Remember me because I will never forget you."
~Jordan Weisman
~Jordan Weisman
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Quote #295
"If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. That is the way the world is made now."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #294
"This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Our Total Insignificance
It has occurred to me a bit ago, that we are totally, completely and pointlessly insignificant. And there are others that have said things on this topic in their novels, and you can see those novels if you are sick of listening to me rant on philosophically depressing topics. Those novels, right off the topic of my head, are Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green(I highly recommend the Green and any other novels written or co-written by him because he is amazing).
On average, 115,338 people die per day worldwide. And your life does not change in the slightest. You get up and you attend your work and school and don't give a second thought that 2 people just died in the second it took you to take the step out your front door. People are dying as I write this rant about people dying. And nothing changes. You still get up and go, the cars still run, candles still burn and people still walk and talk and drink and laugh. But more importantly, the sun still rises and sets and flowers still grow and die, the moon still reflects the light of the sun, and the earth still spins.
The earth does not care that we are here. Neither does the sun. The moon orbits the earth, not us. We do not make the animals breed, instinct does. We did not develop that instinct. We do not water flowers, the rain does. We did not make the rain. We do not make the sun burn, it's own gases do. We did not develop those gases. We are pointless observers to the cycle of life. Watchers. And before the human race was put here, via God, or gods, or microscopic bacteria evolution, the earth still spun, and the sun still shone, and the plants still grew and died. We do not matter.
What do you all think will happen once we are gone? Once the entire human race has been eradicated? Nothing will happen, I am sad to inform you. Plants will still die, the sun might still be shining, depending on when exactly in time we are eradicated, it might be burnt out by then, but you get the point. Planets are still going to be being made and being destroyed and the cosmos are probably going to laugh at our rotting corpses because once upon a time so many of us thought we were so important.
There's gonna be a time after the human race. Eventually, there's going to be a time after animals and weird mutants and stuff, too. There will be a time when all that remains is the earth or the planets or the sun, there will be a time when there is only the universe. There will be a time that no one will remember us or what we did. There will be a time where all of our structures and manuscripts are destroyed, and there will be no evidence, not a piece or a single, fading whisper, that humanity ever inhabited this planet.
In the longest run, looking at the biggest picture, nothing matters. Nothing helps. Nothing will stave off the destruction of humanity. Nothing will remedy our insignificance.
On average, 115,338 people die per day worldwide. And your life does not change in the slightest. You get up and you attend your work and school and don't give a second thought that 2 people just died in the second it took you to take the step out your front door. People are dying as I write this rant about people dying. And nothing changes. You still get up and go, the cars still run, candles still burn and people still walk and talk and drink and laugh. But more importantly, the sun still rises and sets and flowers still grow and die, the moon still reflects the light of the sun, and the earth still spins.
The earth does not care that we are here. Neither does the sun. The moon orbits the earth, not us. We do not make the animals breed, instinct does. We did not develop that instinct. We do not water flowers, the rain does. We did not make the rain. We do not make the sun burn, it's own gases do. We did not develop those gases. We are pointless observers to the cycle of life. Watchers. And before the human race was put here, via God, or gods, or microscopic bacteria evolution, the earth still spun, and the sun still shone, and the plants still grew and died. We do not matter.
What do you all think will happen once we are gone? Once the entire human race has been eradicated? Nothing will happen, I am sad to inform you. Plants will still die, the sun might still be shining, depending on when exactly in time we are eradicated, it might be burnt out by then, but you get the point. Planets are still going to be being made and being destroyed and the cosmos are probably going to laugh at our rotting corpses because once upon a time so many of us thought we were so important.
There's gonna be a time after the human race. Eventually, there's going to be a time after animals and weird mutants and stuff, too. There will be a time when all that remains is the earth or the planets or the sun, there will be a time when there is only the universe. There will be a time that no one will remember us or what we did. There will be a time where all of our structures and manuscripts are destroyed, and there will be no evidence, not a piece or a single, fading whisper, that humanity ever inhabited this planet.
In the longest run, looking at the biggest picture, nothing matters. Nothing helps. Nothing will stave off the destruction of humanity. Nothing will remedy our insignificance.
Quote #293
"I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading and receding farther and farther into the background."
~Elizabeth Wurtzel
~Elizabeth Wurtzel
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Quote #291
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
~Oscar Wilde
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Quote #290
"It occurs to me, then, that people themselves are are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns, impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible to even imagine."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Quote #289
"Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold onto, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness."
~Lauren Oliver
~Lauren Oliver
Friday, December 6, 2013
Quote #288
"For each person there is a sentence-a series of words-which has the power to destroy them."
~Philip K Dick
~Philip K Dick
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Quote #287
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow, and maybe forever, living and leaving without you."
~MF Moonzajer
~MF Moonzajer
Quote #286
"I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn."
~Charlotte Eriksson
~Charlotte Eriksson
Quote #284
"Sometimes depression means,
Ignoring every phone call for a month,
Because yes, they have the right number,
But you're not the person they're looking for, not anymore."
~Alexandra Tilton
Ignoring every phone call for a month,
Because yes, they have the right number,
But you're not the person they're looking for, not anymore."
~Alexandra Tilton
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