pass the mic

*random quotes and reflections *

a man doesn't like to feel right from the beginning that he's like piece of cloth that a woman is going to cut up and sew according to how they're wearing husbands this year. -guys and dolls

desire nothing, accept everything. -st. teresa of avila

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air ...
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
-eliot, ash wednesday

i offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn -dylan

it soon will be sunrise but i still haven't slept lying awake and alone you've set me free from my prison of memory now that you've killed me maybe i can live again abandon the quicksand of my own stubborn will i'm sure you'll be happy where i failed so completely all your words were a farce and the joke is on me but i'll hold up my head and laugh loudest of all and i'll bow to the wind as it blows me away from all i've held dear starting over again and i have no more tears now for what could have been

Did you not then believe, old mole, that these two things alone are real, loving and dying, and since one is so much like the other and there is so little of the one, in the end there remained only the other?
silence.
-walker percy, the second coming

i ought not to have loved you. 'twas wrong of me to do so, and even more wrong to be so loyal.

Then must you speak of one who loved not wisely but too well. -shakespeare, othello

Still Hope, breathing peace, through the grief-swollen breast
Will whisper, "Our meeting we yet may renew":
With this dream of deceit, half our sorrow's represt,
Nor taste we the poison, of Love's last adieu!

-George Gordon, Lord Byron
who married Annabella Milbanke, a woman to whom he was not attracted nor in love. it was a deliberate and twisted attempt to curb his voracious lust, especially for his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. he had one of his illegitimate daughters, Allegra, educated in convents because Byron said that if any religion at all was true, it would be Catholicism.

When planets run around and around in circles, we say they are orbiting. When people do it, we say they are crazy.
Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water.
A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population.
A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot.
~anonymous~

dreamin' about those days when i was
lovin' you was like lovin' a fifth of the finest bourbon
-martin sexton

Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee;
All things pass;
God never changes.
Patience obtains all that it strives for;
He who has God wants nothing;
God alone suffices.
-St. Teresa of Avila