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Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: A clipboard :) Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:19 am | |
| Figured this thread could be some sort of clipboard, to put quotes and stuff you like of any origin and any mood. Chat, books, movies, music and whatnot. Ima add two now, a classic quote from The Catcher in the Rye (Bass prolly recognizes this one:) and a haiku by japanese poet Bashō. "I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people’s cars. I didn’t care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn’t know me and I didn’t know anybody. I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn’t have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they’d have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They’d get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I’d be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody’d think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they’d leave me alone." ~J.D. Salinger "kono michi ya / yuku hito nashi ni / aki no kure No one walks along this path this autumn evening. " ~Matsuo Bashō | |
| | | Engel Admin
Number of posts : 100 Age : 50 Registration date : 2008-07-03
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:18 pm | |
| The classic, brilliant and most amazing movie ever - Bladerunner
Batty played by Rutger Hauer to Deckard played by Harrison Ford
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die. | |
| | | Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:49 pm | |
| "A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle, and get out! The healthy wayfarer sitting beside the road scanning the horizon open before him, is he not the absolute master of the earth, the waters, even the sky?… His estate has no limits, his empire no law. No work bends him toward the ground, for the bounty and beauty of the earth are already his.
To have a home, a family, a property or a public function, to have a definite means of livelihood and to be a useful cog in the social machine, all these things seem necessary, even indispensable, to the vast majority of men, including intellectuals, and including even those who think of themselves as wholly liberated. And yet such things are only a different form of the slavery that comes of contact with others."
~Isabelle Eberhardt
Also, another haiku...
"at the crescent moon the silence enters the heart"
~Chiyo-ni | |
| | | Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Tue Jun 25, 2013 6:12 am | |
| "Lao Tzi loved to take a walk in the morning, he just walked a long way down the road in silence watching the sun rising above the land. His neighbour and friend knew about that habit of his and every morning he took a walk with Lao just watching the sun saying nothing. One day a cousin of the friend of Lao Tzi came to see his relative and just in time for the daily routine. That day they walked a mountain road, with the green plain drowned in the morning mist at their feet, and the rising sun giving a life to that view, the Cousin said : "What a beautiful morning!!" ......no more words were said that day except Lao Tzi's : "Please, never take that man on a walk with us again"" | |
| | | Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:22 am | |
| It's raining today, bliss. =)
"The rain surrounded the cabin ... with a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, of rumor. Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees, filling the gullies and crannies of the wood with water, washing out the places where men have stripped the hillside. Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, the rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen."
~Thomas Merton | |
| | | Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Sun Oct 13, 2013 2:59 pm | |
| "Far back past deep, dark, silent trees where no city's seed has e're been sown, in a forest by the crashing seas, there lives the hermit all alone. Wouldn't leave if, per chance, he could; the slightest change would raise his ire. Content to wander in the wood, to dream alone beside the fire."
~ R. Logue | |
| | | Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Fri Jun 27, 2014 4:07 pm | |
| Saw this series recently, the quote in this poster just describes is so nicely... "A whistle blows, recalling a thousand emotions crowded in their hearts The train waddles along the stellar ocean with the endless dreams and romances aboard Into their childhood which everyone has passed through once they started a journey, the mysterious lady Maetel and Tetsuro " | |
| | | Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Mon May 16, 2016 10:58 am | |
| "Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer."
~ Shunryu Suzuki | |
| | | Mr_Death
Number of posts : 222 Location : The abyss between kindness and malice Registration date : 2008-07-06
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Sun Feb 04, 2018 5:53 am | |
| " A boat beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July —
Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear —
Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream — Lingering in the golden gleam — Life, what is it but a dream? "
~ Lewis Carrol
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| | | Engel Admin
Number of posts : 100 Age : 50 Registration date : 2008-07-03
| Subject: Re: A clipboard :) Fri Mar 09, 2018 2:27 pm | |
| On Being Human by C. S. Lewis
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness and right Stonehood from their clear, High eminence are seen; unveiled, the seminal Huge Principles appear.
The Tree-ness of the tree they know-the meaning of Arboreal life, how from earth's salty lap The solar beam uplifts it; all the holiness Enacted by leaves' fall and rising sap;
But never an angel knows the knife-edged severance Of sun from shadow where the trees begin, The blessed cool at every pore caressing us -An angel has no skin.
They see the Form of Air; but mortals breathing it Drink the whole summer down into the breast. The lavish pinks, the field new-mown, the ravishing Sea-smells, the wood-fire smoke that whispers Rest. The tremor on the rippled pool of memory That from each smell in widening circles goes, The pleasure and the pang --can angels measure it? An angel has no nose.
The nourishing of life, and how it flourishes On death, and why, they utterly know; but not The hill-born, earthy spring, the dark cold bilberries. The ripe peach from the southern wall still hot Full-bellied tankards foamy-topped, the delicate Half-lyric lamb, a new loaf's billowy curves, Nor porridge, nor the tingling taste of oranges. —An angel has no nerves.
Far richer they! I know the senses' witchery Guards us like air, from heavens too big to see; Imminent death to man that barb'd sublimity And dazzling edge of beauty unsheathed would be. Yet here, within this tiny, charmed interior, This parlour of the brain, their Maker shares With living men some secrets in a privacy Forever ours, not theirs. | |
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