Random Quotes

I awoke at 2:45 AM. I was hungry, and maybe hunger woke me. I’m not surprised to be awake so early. It happens frequently.

I opened the fridge door and removed a bowl of leftovers: ground beef cooked with diced red and green Bell peppers and onion. I scrambled two eggs in the microwave (which makes them crumbly) and mixed the egg into the leftovers. Awesome.

It’s still dark outside.

I’m going to show you some random quotes I’ve acquired as years go by. They come from various sources: books, plays, television. Sometimes I’ll read or hear something that touches a chord inside me, and I make a note of it. Therefore, these quotes may mean nothing to you. They say something about me, but I can’t tell you what it is. Sometimes a quote will only speak to me at 3 AM. Sometimes a quote is like a koan and what it says is ineffable. At other times, a quote is just a quote.

“It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow ... empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer (episode: Passion; writer: Ty King)

“In the book that is my memory, on the first page of that chapter that is the day I met you, appear the words ‘Here begins a new life.’”
— Dante, La Vita Nuova

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“In the light universe, I have been darkness. Perhaps in the dark zone, I will be light.”
— Kai, Lexx 1.0

“Every time I pull up a wildflower, I find it connected to the Universe.”
— John Muir

“The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.”
— Sir James Jeans

“You taught me, baby, how the few who win, acquire what their hearts' desire. It ain't practice, it ain't skill. They'll help, but not as much as wanting will.”
— from the Broadway musical Chess (from the song No Contest; lyricist:Tim Rice.)

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.”
— Spock, Star Trek (Amok Time)

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
— Herman Melville

“ … nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.”
— Herman Melville