Did a quick search and didn't find a thread about this yet.

I've always enjoyed 'collecting' quotes from books or poetry that struck me and particularly interesting or powerful. Do you guys have any?

Here are a few of my favorites.


"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing......Only I will remain."
-Litany Against Fear, Dune, Frank Herbert


"to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
-Moby Dick, Herman Melville


"So it goes"
-Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut


"Not all those who wander are lost"
-from a larger poem in The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien


"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
-Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream

Haha "little-death"

On that note...

'I know Kung Fu'

I did it like this
I did it like that
I did it with a wiffle ball bat

smells like a Lounge thread

"It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon... don't concentrate on that finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory"

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Sometimes, lies are more dependable than the truth

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

This gem, which still has the same effect on me now as it did the first time I read it.

and goodnight gom jabbar







and goodnight gom jabbar

I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.
I do not like
Green eggs and ham

It was a dark and stormy night

The classics never go out of style.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

"Go then, there are worlds other than these."

“Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard.”

Stephen King, The Gunslinger

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds -Gita

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”


― A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."

Always stuck with me. Never actually read the book, but saw it in Dom's "I'm so totally getting a tattoo" thread that one time.

All of us want to live and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don’t do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbor, food, and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn’t enough to make our lives have a meaning. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
-the judge

"I know I can whip your ass! I've been World Champion more times than you've had pieces of ass!"

- Ric Flair

Japanese death obsession is really ****ed up.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

lol how did no one else like this post?