I don't want to live without the sparklers, the brightness. Without that feeling of lying flat on the ground, pressed down with barely any blood or breathing and barely even any bones. What good is living without that? Only TV and TV and TV. Susannah M. Smith

Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not them them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Rumi

Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. William Morris

You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. Walter M. Miller Jr.

I myself don't want the disruption of those who soul lacks luminosity. Shawna Lemay

If the soul is set in the direction of love, the more we contemplate necessity, the more closely we press its metallic cold and hardness directly to our very flesh, the nearer we approach to the beauty of the world. Simone Weil

My soul is a secret orchestra, but I don't know what instruments -- strings, harps, cymbals, drums -- strum and bang inside me. I only know myself as the symphony. Fernando Pessoa

Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once, just once, understand. anonymous

And all those people who automatically disparage romances, I don't trust them, you know? What are they afraid of? The small fantasies of millions of women? I wonder. Shawna Lemay

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.Francesca Lia Block

Prepare yourself, darling. Earthquakes can happen at any time. And remember, the last thing the world needs is more invisible women. Susannah M. Smith

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp

That is really the power of genius: the force of will to make all the mistakes necessary to get the right answer. Michio Kaku

You can't destroy me: I don't love you. Eirene Evripidou

Space and time...time and space...locked in an intricate dance across the cosmos. And if you know the tune...anything is possible. the (Eleventh) Doctor

A clever mind is not a heart. Benjamin Hoff

Where's your will to be weird? Jim Morrison

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend in to the world, before, and people have continued to disappoint them. Jodi Picoult

Some stories are true that never happened. Elie Wiesel

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles, exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center-light pop and everybody goes "Awww!" Sal Paradise, On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

If you can explain it, then it's not magical realism. Luis Leal

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid. Aung San Suu Kyi

There is nothing so long and faint as a life you do not live for yourself. And yet, it slides on by in the blink of an eye. Ushiromiya Kinzo, Requiem of the Golden Witch (Ryuukishi07)

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. Samuel Beckett

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself. Siddharta Gautama

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)

If ye cannae take a joke, you're fuckin' DOOMED. Billy Connolly

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose. C.S. Lewis

Within the armour is the butterfly, and within the butterfly -- is the signal from another star. Philip K. Dick

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem. Anne Sexton

If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

Just as we, and all life on earth, stand on this tiny speck, adrift in infinite space, so life in the universe will only exist for a fleeting, bright instant in time. Because life, just like the stars and the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder. But that doesn't make us insignificant, because we are the cosmos made conscious. Life is the means by which the universe understands itself. And, for me, our true significance lies in our ability and our desire to understand and explore this beautiful universe. Professor Brian Cox

Your existence is not impossible. But it's also not very likely. Welcome to Night Vale, episode 16

You can't run from who you are...not your brain, not your inclinations, or your experience. So accept your shit -- run towards it, use it. George Saunders

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill you and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. Steve Irwin

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry, is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to live without hesitation, how to lose without regrey, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand

Go then. There are other worlds than these. Jake Chambers, The Gunslinger (Stephen King)

War is organised murder, and nothing else. Harry Patch

Write drunk; edit sober. Ernest Hemingway

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus

It doesn't matter how you do it, just fucking shine. Katelan Foisy

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to, to have hope...it's a sort of religion, actually. Music is...is God. Alice Herz-Sommer

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch. Catherynne M. Valente

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. Laurell K. Hamilton

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. Lynda Barry

But I think the number one thing that cheers you up in life is hanging around with interesting people, because God knows there are some dull fuckers out there. Russell Howard

I know I believe in nothing, but it is my nothing. Richey Edwards/Manic Street Preachers

Every star may be a sun to someone. Carl Sagan

You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say "wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?" You think I'll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I'll swallow you whole. Warsan Shire

Art is socialism and socialism is art. unknown

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in heaven there are many mansions. Teresa of Ávila

Once every people in the world believed that trees were divine, and could take a human or grotesque shape and dance among the shadows; and that deer, and ravens and foxes, and wolves and bears, and clouds and pools, almost all things under the sun and moon, and the sun and moon, were not less divine and changeable. WB Yeats

How good people are.
And animals. Hans Christian Andersen

I think that objects have memories. I'm always thinking that I'll go to the museum and see something and have a a big memory about some other lifetime. Kiki Smith

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. Virginia Woolf

Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, since the unknown. It calls to me. Octavio Paz

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl

Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Ray Bradbury

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. Niels Bohr

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force...my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. Og Mandino

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Aristotle

I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream. Vincent van Gogh

Hate has shaped this world, but love will change it. anonymous

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool. Shirley Manson

Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche

You are the music while the music lasts. T.S. Eliot

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. David Carradine

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers. Sean Covey

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Farmers' Almanac 1978

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is such a secret place, the land of tears... Antoine de Saint Exupéry

A kind word warms for three winter months. Chinese proverb

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. unknown

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gautier

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

Your absence has gone through me
Like a thread though a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color. W.S. Merwin

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. unknown

I have wasted thousands and thousands of kisses on you -- kisses that I thought were special because of your lips and your smile and all your color and life. I used to think that was the real you, when you smiled. But now I know you don't mean any of it...shame on me for kissing you with my eyes closed so tight. Faye, That Thing You Do!

I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays? Clarisse, Fahrenheit 451

I leave matter to the engineers. To the poet belongs the spirit. Léopold Sédar Senghor

Some of my best friends are yet to be born; some died a thousand years ago; and some are calling to me although we haven't yet heard of each other. Paul R. Fleischman

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these things are what we stay alive for. John Keating, Dead Poets Society

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

All a poet can do today is warn. Wilfred Owen

There may not always be poets, but there will always be poetry. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

I want health and healing and holding close. I want similar souls. I want passionate yeses. I want to hear jazz with my eyes closed, and dig my toes into the sand dancing. I want to climb to the summit and yell and sleep under the strars. I want to laugh my head off and play marbles and sleep in and eat croissants in bed with butter and marmalade and spill coffee and wear lace and trip holding your hand because I am listening so closely. Sabrina Ward Harrison

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes. Henry David Thoreau

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. Garrison Keillor

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise. Lao-Tze

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. Aldous Huxley

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid

I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt. Jennifer Donnelly

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time. Jack London

If you don't have much soul left and you know it, you still got soul. Charles Bukowski