Chaos Quotes - Page 20

• Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

  William Dunbar

  Fear Of Death

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• I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Believe, Knowing, Dying

  "Synecdoche, New York". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The end is built into the beginning.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Ends, Built

  Charlie Kaufman (2008). “Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• There has to be pain. That's the rule.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain

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• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, World, Ends

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• I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

  Franz Kafka

  Empty, Uncertain, Feels

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot see that there is a banquet because seeing the banquet requires that we see also ourselves sitting there starving-seeing ourselves clearly, even for a moment, is shattering. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dream, People, Sitting

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• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  Two, Silence, Chance

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

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• We can know ourselves only because we can remember.

  John Ratey

  Remember, Knows

  John J. Ratey, M.D. (2001). “A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain”, p.185, Vintage

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• If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.

  Ben Weaver

  Lying, Use, Said

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• Silence is also conversation.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Conversation, Silence Is

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• We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

  William Faulkner

  Evil, Done, Littles

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

  Gregory Alan Isakov

  Past, Way, Faces

  Song: Big Black Car

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• I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'

  Ben Weaver

  Love You, Said, What You Love

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• It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Thinking, Ought

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• We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning building. I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

  Joey Comeau

  Heart, Race, Forever

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• A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. The events, the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then-the glory-so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Eye, Dark

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.106, Penguin

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• Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Sometimes, Bigs

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• Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

  Joey Comeau

  Ocean, Dark, Sides

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• If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.

  Joey Comeau

  Would Be, Empty, Ifs

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• We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

  Albert Camus

  Real, Past, Life And Death

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.97, Vintage

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• Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

  Jackson Browne

  Lying, Alive, May

  Song: For A Dancer, 1974

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• Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

  Jon Brion

  Decay, Way, Okay

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• Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Nature, Winter

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.125

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• Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

  Assia Djebar

  Fear, Writing, Feminist

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