public.
BRIGHT EYES
"once you said you hated my suffering and you understood and you'd take care of me. you would always be there. well where are you now?"
"i stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well, and i would throw my whole billfold if i thought it would help."
"does he cry through broken sentences like 'i love you far too much?'"
"you are the reoccurring kind. you never really leave my mind."
"she says she's read too many fashion magazines. she's forgotten what real love is like."
"I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you, some decisions you don't make. I guess it's just like breathing and not wanting to -- there are some things you can't fake."
"I guess that it's typical to cling to memories you'll never get back again."
"But as for me I'm coming to my final failure I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better, but I ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be"
"we are all fucking alone"
"I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories..."
"Love's an excuse to get hurt."
"Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?"
"And it all boils down to one quotable phrase... 'If you love something, give it away.'"
"Well, winter's gonna end I'm gonna clean these veins again So close to dying that I finally can start living"
"Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving you goodbye."
"once you said you hated my suffering and you understood and you'd take care of me. you would always be there. well where are you now?"
"and i hang like a star, fucking glow in the dark, for all those starving eyes to see, like the ones we've wished on."
"i stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well, and i would throw my whole billfold if i thought it would help."
"she had eyes bright enough to burn me, they reminded me of yours."
"does he cry through broken sentences like 'i love you far too much?'"
"and every night i think i certainly won't ever sleep sober, or alone...then suddenly it occurs to me i've slept alone before you."
"there is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live"
"you write such pretty words, but life's no storybook."
"so i prefer to be remembered as a smiling face, not this fucking wreck that's taken its place."
"just don't ask about my appetite. i didn't lose it tonight, it's been gone half my life. it's just i've been eating for you."
"i know you have a heavy heart; i can feel it when we kiss."
"you are the reoccurring kind. you never really leave my mind."
"t's always night and there is no moon. and you wonder if you are alive. and you're not sure if you want to be."
"i know i'm lazy with the little things. i mean, i never held a door. but i still loved you more than anyone since or before."
"she says she's read too many fashion magazines. she's forgotten what real love is like."
"I hear your name. No, nothing has changed."
"I sing and drink, and sleep on floors, and try hard not to be annoyed, by all these people worrying about me."
"So, I mean, here we go but there ain't no escape, no, these streets they're just dead ends - so I won't ever be happy again"
"Just lately I've been feeling like I don't belong, like the ground's not mine to walk upon"
"we all get tired, I mean eventually there is nothing left to do but sleep"
"Of course it's your decision, but just so you know, if you decide to leave, soon I will follow"
"Love is real, it is not just in novels or the movies. It is fact and it is standing here right in front of you"
"The drunk kids, the catholics, they’re all about the same. They’re waiting for something, hoping to be saved"
"So I pour myself the stiffest drink my stomach can stand and convince myself to lay back down again"
"Another year I claim of total indifference"
"with these drinks I plan to collapse and forget this wasted year, these wasted years"
"I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you, some decisions you don't make. I guess it's just like breathing and not wanting to -- there are some things you can't fake"
"I guess that it's typical to cling to memories you'll never get back again."
"So, I’m just the medicine you take when you’re sick. You get well and that’s it, I’m put back on the shelf in your mirror"
"people love and they hate and I guess it’s just our turn to hate"
"And you think I’m an asshole now, well, you’re probably right, but at least I’m not blind to the facts I’ve been wishing were lies"
"Just don’t ask about my appetite, I didn’t lose it tonight. No, it’s been gone half my life, it’s just act, I’ve been eating for you"
"I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments and watch it all dissolve into a single second and try to write it down into a perfect sonnet or one foolish line"
"You are here then you're gone"
"I believe that lovers should be tied together and thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather and left there to drown, left there to drown in their innocence"
"as for me I'm coming to the final chapter I read all of the pages and there is still no answer"
"Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror and you've spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever and now you are laying in a bathtub full of freezing water wishing you were a ghost"
"You can't remember where she said she was going to but you know that she's gone 'cause she left you a song that you don't want to sing"
"But as for me I'm coming to my final failure I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better, but I ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be"
"we are all fucking alone"
"we don't know what we are doing, maybe just buying us some hope because we know that we are lonely. yeah, lonely that's for sure"
"maybe it's me who's this unstable, always obsessed about the end. why can't i let what happens happen and just enjoy the time i spend?"
"wake up in the morning to find you are not who you used to be. you don't recognize the behavior or the spelling of your name and the shape that is in the mirror"
"laying around, no school today, just drink until the clock has circled all the way"
"you think you don't want to pass out where your roommates will find you again"
"you would settle for anything that would make your brain slow down or stop"
"you're going to wake from this coma, you're going to crawl from this bed you have made. and stop counting on that camera that hangs round your neck, because it won't ever remember what you choose to forget"
"you said, 'i'm done feeling like a skeleton no more sleep walking dead'"
"try to name one thing you like, you used to have such a longer list"
"now it's so easy to second guess everything you do until all you want is to finish this half empty glass before the ice melts away. this feeling used to pass but seems like it's every day and every night now"
"Now and again it seems worse than it is, but mostly the view is accurate."
"You see your breath in the air while you climb up the stairs to that coffin you call your apartment."
"You are not really sure what you are doing this for but you need something to fill up the days."
"And I hang like a star, fucking glow in the dark, for all those starving eyes to see, like the ones we've wished on."
"Don't degrade yourself the way I do because you don't depend on all the shit that I use to make my moods improve."
"Yeah, don't destroy yourself like those cowards do and maybe the sun keeps coming up because it has gotten used to you and your constant need for proof."
"to color the eyes of your former lovers. Hers were green like July, except when she cried they were red."
"Once the page of a calendar is turned it's no more. So tell me then, what was it for?"
"Why do you lay in the grass? Why do you lay there? Don't you want to be found?"
"Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head? And does he sing to you incessantly from the place between your bed and wall?"
"Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes? looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you. "
"Does he know that place below your neck that is your favorite to be touched and does he cry through broken sentences like I love you far too much?"
"Does he lay awake listening to your breath worried that you smoke too many cigarettes?"
"I drug your ghost across the country and we plotted out my death."
"I kissed a girl with a broken jaw that her father gave to her. She had eyes bright enough to burn me. They reminded me of yours."
"I will not weep for those dying days, for all the ones who have left there are a few that stayed."
"Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving you good-bye."
"So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive that would be fine."
"So don't leave me here with only mirrors watching me. This house it holds nothing but the memories."
"I will not desert him. No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me."
"they can land that plane on my heart I don't care just give me November, the warmth of a whisper in the freezing darkness of my room."
"All the pills that I take trying to balance my brain."
BLOC PARTY
"and i know that you're busy too, i know that you care."
"i can't eat, i can't sleep. i can't sleep, i can't dream. an aversion to light, got a fear of the ocean, like drinking poison, like eating glass."
"wake up dreamer, it's happening without you."
"stop being so laissez-faire, we're all scared of the future"
"she just can't sleep, she's falling down the stairs. she's tearing out her hair, she's screaming my name in the night to keep her warm."
"all my thoughts are lies, all my bones are so tired."
BRAND NEW
"you are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins."
"call me a safe bet i'm betting i'm not."
"wasting words on lowercases and capitals."
"if you let me have my way, i swear i'll tear you apart."
"if i could i would shrink myself and sink through your skin to your blood cells and remove whatever makes you hurt, but i am
too weak to be your cure."
"i can't see why i feel so lonely when you and me could be forever, perfectly perfect together."
"a sip for every second hand tick, and every time you fed the line 'you mean so much to me.'"
"and if you ever said you missed me, then don't say you never lied."
"they say to pray if you want to go to heaven but they don't tell you what to say when your whole life has gone to hell."
"a night like this is begging to pull me apart."
"every line is about who i don't wanna write about anymore."
"what they say love is a risk, you always get hit out of nowhere."
"i'll leave the door open all night in case you decide you want to stop on by."
"a sip for every second hand tick, and every time you fed the line 'you mean so much to me.'"
"and if you ever said you missed me, then don't say you never lied."
CURSIVE
"i am not looking for a lover, all those lovers are liars."
"you're no lover, and i'm no fighter."
"i don't want to be seen as a pretty thing 'cause it's the pretty things we're always breaking."
"let's pretend we're not needy, let's pretend our hearts still beat"
"let's pretend that we don't need anything anymore from anyone. i don't want to feel anything anymore, let's just pretend, we'll live happily ever after."
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
"man it takes a silly girl to lie about the dreams she has, lord it takes a lonely one to wish that she had never dreamt at all."
"your taste still lingers on my lips like i just placed them upon yours and i starve for you."
"i am flawed, but i am cleaning up so well"
"as for now i'm gonna hear the saddest songs and sit alone and wonder how you're making out. and as for me i wish that i was anywhere with anyone, making out."
"i hope you're are happy as you're pretending."
"well, this is odd, the painful realization that all has gone wrong and nobody cares at all."
"she had a history of killing herself, and i had a habit of dying."
"i think i miss you most on wednesdays and saturdays."
"and do you like making out? and long drives and brown eyes? and guys that just don't quite fit in?"
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
"this is fact not fiction for the first time in years."
"i'll sit and wonder of every love that could have been, if only i'd thought of something charming to say."
"pack a change of clothes cause it's time to move on."
"i lost track and then those words were said, you took the wheel and you steered us into my bed. Soon we woke and i walked you home and it was pretty clear that it was hardly love."
"there's no blame for how our love did slowly fade. and now that it's gone, it's like it wasn't there at all. and here i rest, where disappointment and regret collide."
"yeah, she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me."
"this is the moment, that you know, that you told her that you love her but you don't."
"wanted to believe in all the words that i was speaking as we moved together in the dark and all the friends that i was telling and all the playful misspellings and every bite i gave you left a mark."
"i need you so much closer"
"and i held you closer than anyone would ever get."
"and as they all grow older the truth will be understood, 'cause we never turn out the way we thought we would."
"i think i'm drunk enough to drive you home now."
"i let you bum a smoke, you quit this winter past. i've tried twice before, but like this, it just will not last"
"i'm in los angeles today: asked a gas station employee if he ever had trouble breathing and he said 'it varies from season to season.'"
"i wish the world was flat like the old days, then i could travel just by folding a map, no more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways, there'd be no distance that can hold us back."
"it's nothing to cry about, because we'll hold each other soon."
"cause i built you a home in my heart, with rotten wood, it decayed from the start."
"you're so cute when you're slurring your speech"
"in the morning i fled left a note and it read someday you will be loved."
ELLIOTT SMITH
i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow."
"if i didn't know the difference, living alone would probably be okay"
"my heart's been attacked, shattered by tough love, bad love."
"i'm beyond the help i require just to exist at all."
"i had tender feelings that you made hard but it's your heart, not mine, that's scarred."
"got bitten fingernails and a head full of the past."
THE GET UP KIDS
"just make me a promise that the world's not going to end."
"it's like you're falling in love while i just fall apart."
"there's no need for reminding; you are still all that matters to me."
"out of sight, out of mind, out of reach. to start over is no way to begin."
"i'll cry, until i can't see the whites of your eyes."
IRON&WINE
"we were born to fuck each other one way or another."
JIMMY EAT WORLD
"can you still feel the butterflies? can you still hear the last goodnight? if i don't let myself be happy now, then when? if not now, when?"
"i'm gonna smile and not get worried. i try but it shows."
"here you can be anything. and i think that scares you."
"you say that love goes anywhere; in your darkest time, it's just enough to know it's there. when you go, i will let you be. but you're killing everything in me."
"i loved you and i should have said it just tell me what has it ever meant."
"it might seem like a dream but it’s real to me."
"we're only just as happy as everyone else seem to think we are"
"there's so much i've felt i should say, but even if your heart would listen, doubt i could explain."
THE POSTAL SERVICE
"will someone please call the surgeon, who can crack my ribs, and repair my broken heart?"
"your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures."
"ive been waiting since birth to find a love that would look and sound like a movie."
"i want to take you far from the cynics in this town, and kiss you on the mouth."
"i know you're wise beyond your years, but do you ever get the fear your perfect verse is just a lie you tell yourself to help you get by?"
"i want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real."
ANNIE HALL
"Hey, don't knock masturbation! It's sex with someone I love."
What's the difference? It's all mental masturbation."
GARDEN STATE
"And besides that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?"
"You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone."
"what I want more then anything in the world, is for it to be okay with you for me to feel something again, even if it's pain."
"And I'm in love with you. I think that's the only thing I've ever been really sure of in my entire life."
"We may not be as happy as you always dreamed we would be, but for the first time let's just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are and that will be better."
"I don't want to waste another moment of my life without you in it."
"If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you like."
"What do you do? You laugh, you know? I'm not saying I don't cry but in between I laugh and I realize how silly it is to take anything too seriously. Plus, I look forward to a good cry. It feels pretty good."
"That's life. If nothing else, its life. It's real, and sometimes it fuckin' hurts, but it's sort of all we have."
"This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing."
"when i'm with you i feel so safe... like i'm home."
GIRL, INTERRUPTED
"I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside. "
"How am I supposed to recover when I don't even understand my disease?"
"Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is... Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever."
"Maybe everyone out there is a liar. And maybe the whole world is stupid, and ignorant. But I'd rather be in it. I'd rather be fucking in it, than down here with you."
FIGHT CLUB
"You're the worst thing that's ever happened to me."
"Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!"
"Marla's philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn't."
"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
"Its not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything."
"I felt like destroying something beautiful."
"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen."
"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing."
GATTACA
"For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of couse, they say, every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving. Maybe I'm going home..."
SE7EN
"Ernest Hemmingway once wrote, "The world is a wonderful place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part."
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
"I'm drowning here and you're describing the water!"
"So the life that I was trying for, is over. the life that I had is gone, and I'm feeling so damn sorry for myself that it's difficult to breathe."
"It's not true. Some have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no one in this car. But, a lot of people, that's their story. Good times, noodle salad. What makes it so hard is not that you had it bad, but that you're that pissed that so many others had it good."
"I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that's all about being straight and good. I think most people miss that about you, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me."
"Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here."
"People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch."
"Judging from your eyes, I'd say you were kind, so so much for eyes."
"When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome . . . and then of course, you spoke."
MEET JOE BLACK
"Find someone who you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back... To make the journey and not fall deeply in love-- well, you haven't really lived a life at all. But you have to try, because if you havent tried, you havent lived...Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike!"
"That felt like goodbye."
"It's hard to let go, isn't it? Well, that's life. What can I tell you?"
"I can't believe you people. I come for you, and you want to stay, I let you stay and you want to go."
"Love, passion, obsession, all those things you told me to wait for, well, they've arrived."
"I do it because I love you, because everybody loves you. Mommy, wherever she is. Susan, Quince. All the people you work with, anyone who's ever met you. Ahh, Daddy. After all, you've been a wonderful father."
"It's like, you know each other's secrets. Your deepest, darkest secrets. Yeah, and then you're free. You're free, you're free to love each other completely, totally, just no fear. So there's nothing you don't know about each other and it's okay."
"But the truth is, it bound to happen if you stay long enough. So take that nice picture you got in your head home with you, but don't be fooled. We lonely here mostly too. If we lucky, maybe, we got some nice pictures to take with us."
"I don't know what you're gonna do, but, eh, how can this be love: she doesn't know who you are. Why don't you tell her, try it out on her, see what happens. Reveal everything there is to know about youself and let the chips fall where they may, okay? I've given it my best shot; I wish I could tell you to sleep on it."
AMERICAN HISTORY X
"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it."
"Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'"
CRASH
"It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."
"Fuck you very much. Thanks for thinking of me."
"Why do you keep everybody a certain distance, huh? What, you start to feel something and panic?"
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
"can you hear me? i don't want this anymore! i want to call it off!"
"sand is overrated. it's just tiny little rocks."
"blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."
"i'm just happy, clem. i've never felt that before. i'm exactly where i want to be."
"Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."
"Come back and make up a goodbye at least, let's pretend we had one... Goodbye, Joel."
"Look at it out here, it's all falling apart. I'm erasing you and I'm happy!"
"Sometimes I don't think people realize how lonely it is to be a kid."
"Look man, I'm telling you right off the bat I'm high maintenance. So I'm not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is ya got goin' on there. If you wanna be with me, you're with me."
"random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap."
"I wish I'd stayed, too. NOW I wish I'd stayed. I wish I'd done a lot of things. I wish I'd... I wish I'd stayed... I do."
"I'm a vindictive little bitch, truth be told!"
"Adults are like a combination of sadness and phobias."
THE NOTEBOOK
"Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.
So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I though that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out."
OTHER
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity” - George Carlin
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist” - George Carlin
“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected” - Gandhi
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.” - George Carlin
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you
go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating... and you finish off as an orgasm.” - George Carlin
"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin
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