Wordles 2013-2014

Quotes

• “You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.”

• “We comes from God, I from the Devil.” • “I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that

are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?”

• “I no longer have the strength to destroy this painful piece of myself, which might turn out to be the piece I value most.”

Quotes

• “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

• “All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."

• “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”

• “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

• “Ending is better than mending.”

Quotes• “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”• “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”• “War is peace. • Freedom is slavery. • Ignorance is strength.”• “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”• “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind

simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”• “Big Brother is Watching You.”• “Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard

a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

• “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

• “You are a slow learner, Winston."• "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."• "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they

are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

Quotes• “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in

this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”

• “This is a people shooting hat,” I said. “I shoot people in this hat.”• “That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty,

even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”

Quotes• “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down

along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo”

• “The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”

• “Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”• “A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed

like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her long slender bare legs were delicate as a crane's and pure save where an emerald trail of seaweed had fashioned itself as a sign upon the flesh. Her thighs, fuller and soft-hued as ivory, were bared almost to the hips, where the white fringes of her drawers were like feathering of soft white down. Her slate-blue skirts were kilted boldly about her waist and dovetailed behind her. Her bosom was as a bird's, soft and slight, slight and soft as the breast of some dark-plumaged dove. But her long fair hair was girlish: and girlish, and touched with the wonder of mortal beauty, her face.

• She was alone and still, gazing out to sea; and when she felt his presence and the worship of his eyes her eyes turned to him in quiet sufferance of his gaze, without shame or wantonness.”

Quotes

• “If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

• “The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”

Quotes• "He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life - of vague and bloody conflicts

that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire. In visions he had seen himself in many struggles."

• "Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed. He would die; he would go to some place where he would be understood. . . .He must look to the grave for comprehension."

• "At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage."

• "Yet gradually he mustered the force to put the sin at a distance. . . . He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly. He was gleeful when he realized that he now despised them.

• With this conviction came a store of assurance. . . . He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.

Quotes• “But the wonderfullest trick of all was the coffin trick. We nailed him into a coffin

and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail. . . . There is a trick that would come in handy for me—get me out of this two-by-four situation! . . . Who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?”

• “JIM: Aw, aw, aw. Is it broken?• LAURA: Now it is just like all the other horses.• JIM: It’s lost its—• LAURA: Horn! It doesn’t matter. . . . [smiling] I’ll just imagine he had an operation.

The horn was removed to make him feel less—freakish!”• “I descended the steps of this fire escape for a last time and followed, from then

on, in my father’s footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. . . . I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. . . . I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look into her eyes. Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be!”

Quotes• “Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.”• “Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”• “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once

more.”• “We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”• “Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are

needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflexion, or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come -- ”

Quotes

• “The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?”

• “There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.”

• “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”

Earnest Quotes• “I never travel without my diary. One should always have

something sensational to read in the train.”• “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be

wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”• “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital

thing.”• “My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to

a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!”

• “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

Quotes

• “I know you become such a coward that you'll grab at any lousy excuse to get out of killing your pipe dreams. And yet, as I've told you over and over, it's exactly those damned tomorrow dreams which keep you from making peace with yourself. So you've got to kill them like I did.”

• “To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”

Quotes

• “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”

• “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

Quotes

• “There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”

• “If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We’ll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you’ll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing.”

• “There is always another side, always.”

Quotes• “The middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtues and all

kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life...”

• “I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of.”

• “I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.”

• “In a little time I began to speak to him; and teach him to speak to me: and first, I let him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life: I called him so for the memory of the time. I likewise taught him to say Master; and then let him know that was to be my name.”

Quotes

• “We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.”

• “He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth.”

• “His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.”

Quotes

• "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." (Act I, Scene I)• "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me." (Act

I, Scene III)• "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is

none." (Act I, Scene VII)• "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron

bubble." (Act IV, Scene I)• "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (Act V, Scene I).• "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor

player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." (Act V, Scene V)

Grendel• “I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute

enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. all the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink.”

• “He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled towards it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

• “I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. "Accident," I whisper. I will fall. I seem to desire the fall, and though I fight it with all my will I know in advance I can't win. Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving towards it. I look down, down, into bottomless blackness, feeling the dark power moving in me like an ocean current, some monster inside me, deep sea wonder, dread night monarch astir in his cave, moving me slowly to my voluntary tumble into death.”

Quotes• “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his

and mine are the same.”• “Why did you betray your own heart Cathy? I have not one word of

comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. ... You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? Because ... nothing God or satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of you own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - oh God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave? [...] I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?”

• “Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”