Prompts for 9/17-9/25
1. "He knew his life was incomplete for he had yet to suffer."
-The Strawbs, "Hero and Heroine"
2. “For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity, / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense and motion?”
-John Milton, Paradise Lost
3. "I am the captain of my fate; I am the master of my soul."
-William Earnest Henley, Invictus
4. "They all seem terribly sad... They put me in mind of trees in November."
-Richard Adams, Watership Down
5. "...there should be some limit to the age, the youth at least below which one should not have to kill."
--William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
6. "Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Armed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything.
But silence breaks the heart."
-Phyllis McGinley
7. "I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. "
-W. Dayton Wedgefarth
8. "I wish to believe in immortality- I wish to live with you forever."
-John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne
9. "One little detail, one small brush that would otherwise not matter, but for society weighs much, could finish by itself an entire portrait of a person."
-Shuo Chen
10. "How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."
-Eric Hoffer
11. "Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people."
-Terry Pratchett
12. "Messiahs need people dying in their name."
-Tori Amos, "Pancake."
13. "You just said you love me, now if I say I love you and just throw caution to the wind and let the chips fall where they may and you're lying to me, I'm gonna fuckin' die."
-True Romance
14. "The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs. "
-Alphonse Toussenel
15. "What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!"
-Dante
-The Strawbs, "Hero and Heroine"
2. “For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity, / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense and motion?”
-John Milton, Paradise Lost
3. "I am the captain of my fate; I am the master of my soul."
-William Earnest Henley, Invictus
4. "They all seem terribly sad... They put me in mind of trees in November."
-Richard Adams, Watership Down
5. "...there should be some limit to the age, the youth at least below which one should not have to kill."
--William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
6. "Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Armed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything.
But silence breaks the heart."
-Phyllis McGinley
7. "I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. "
-W. Dayton Wedgefarth
8. "I wish to believe in immortality- I wish to live with you forever."
-John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne
9. "One little detail, one small brush that would otherwise not matter, but for society weighs much, could finish by itself an entire portrait of a person."
-Shuo Chen
10. "How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."
-Eric Hoffer
11. "Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people."
-Terry Pratchett
12. "Messiahs need people dying in their name."
-Tori Amos, "Pancake."
13. "You just said you love me, now if I say I love you and just throw caution to the wind and let the chips fall where they may and you're lying to me, I'm gonna fuckin' die."
-True Romance
14. "The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs. "
-Alphonse Toussenel
15. "What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!"
-Dante