Quote Archive for: Dec 21, 2000 to Jan 22, 2001
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601."
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Isabel F. Hapgood trans.)
"I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk."
Max von Sydow as Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal, written by Ingmar Bergman
"Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect."
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Isabel F. Hapgood trans.)
"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Only morality in our actions can add beauty and dignity to life."
- Albert Einstein
"So you admit to deliberately sabotaging my creative angst?"
- Jeremy Duncan in ZITS, by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
"But I'll quote you a quote, if you like. 'Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.'"
- Cordelia Vorkosigan nee Naismith, Cordelia's Honor