Quotes

Those are quotes that have touched me in one way or another. They come from anywhere -  from books, from movies, from TV and music. And if you recognize a quote and think that it's wrong - I know. I shortened them down, took out lines, and put them together. To make them look even better - at least to me. :-)
The most recent added quotes can be found at the top.
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for a complete list. Here we go then:
 
 

'I wait in the darkness
Frozen winds surround my face
In the cover of darkness I can make believe it's you
I feel you like the rain
I feel you like a stormcloud building in my heart
I wonder if you know the pain
To want the one thing that you haven't got
Won't you leave me in the darkness
Take away the pride all the dignity that's burning inside
Can't you see I'm standing naked
I'll bear all the crosses and the crucifixes you can provide
If you could decide'
~ Savage Garden, "Mine"
 
 
 

'It's a fucked up world and a fucked up place
Everybody's judged by their fucked up face
Ain't it a shame that you can't say fuck?
Fuck's just a word
And it's all fucked up'
~ Limp Bizkit, "Hot Dog"
 
 
 

'You get your kicks from the ghost of a memory
So busy turning away from reality
That you just won't let it go
But you're so wrapped up in her you don't see straight
Watch her magle the truth while you take the bait
She doesn't love you anymore
Maybe she did long ago
You're just a slave to the grind she grew tired of'
~ Savage Garden, "Memories are Designed to Fade"
 
 
 

'It's so easy to tell a lie
And it's so easy to run and hide
But it's not easy to be alive
So don't be wasting none of my time'
~ Limp Bizkit, "Livin' it Up"
 
 
 

'Maybe your luck has changed
Settle down
Maybe I'm just deranged and on the rebound
Maybe love was the thing holding me back from all
Maybe I'm just the thing to break my own fall'
~ Silverchair, "Black Tangled Heart"
 
 
 

'You think you're special
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it when you laugh at me
Look down on me
And walk around on me
Just one more fight about your leadership
And I will straight up leave your shit
'Cause I've had enough of this
And now I'm pissed
This time I'm gonna let it all come out
This time I'm gonna stand up and shout
I'm gonna do things my way
It's my way
My way or the highway'
~ Limp Bizkit, "My Way"
 
 
 

'Alone, you stand allied with your rival,
decieved by life'
~ Translation of latin sample used in Savage Garden's "I Want You"
 
 
 

'I hate the way you talk to me,
And the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car,
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots,
And the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick,
It even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you're always right,
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh,
Even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around,
And the fact you didn't call.
But most of all, I hate the way I don't hate you,
Not even close,
Not even a little bit...
Not even at all.'
~ Julia Stiles as Katrina in "Ten Things I Hate About You"
 
 
 

'I wouldn't want to disappoint you by not disappointing you.'
~ David Duchovny as Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files, Episode 3x14, "Grotesque"
 
 
 

'Maybe I'm wrong
Maybe you're right
Maybe it's just one of those nights
We fell apart
When we should have held together
Should have been warm but I was cool
I should have known
Oh what a fool
Over for good
When we should have been forever
Could have been right
Could have been true
Could have been good just seeing it through
We have a chance
If you'd only stop pretending
Look in my eyes
Look in your heart
Why can't we cut straight to the part?
Won't you come back
And we'll make a happy ending'
~Worlds Apart, "Half the Story"
 
 
 

'Love I beg you
Lift me up into that privileged point of view
The world of two
Love don't leave me
Because I console myself that Hallmark cards are true
I really do
I'm gunning down romance
It never did a thing for me
But heartache and misery
Ain't nothing but a tragedy
Love don't leave me
Take these broken wings
I'm going to take these broken wings
And learn to fly
And learn to fly away'
~ Savage Garden, "Gunning Down Romance"
 
 

'Time waits for no one
As sure as the tide pulls the ocean
The path that's been chosen
Can not be changed
In my life's destination
I searched for the explination
Some kind of reason for my sorrow and pain
But in my isolation
I've learned to listen
To be thankful for the love that I'd been given'
~ 911, "The Journey
 
 
 

'Never want to fly
Never want to leave
Never want to say what you mean to me
Never want to run
Frightened to believe
You're the best thing about me
You could be the best thing about me
What if you're the best thing about me?'
~ Savage Garden, "The Best Thing"
 
 
 

'Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like there's heaven on earth'
~ Unknown
 
 

'I believe in love surviving death into eternity'
~ Savage Garden, "Affirmation"
 
 

'I would die for you
I've been dying just to feel you by my side, to know that you're mine
I would cry for you
I will wash away your pain with all my tears, and drown your fear
I will pray for you,
I will sell my soul for something pure and true, someone like you
You will believe in me, and I will never be ignored
I will burn for you
Feel pain for you
I will lie for you
Beg and steal for you
Violate all the love that I'm missing
Throw away all the pain that I'm living
You will believe in me, and I could never be ignored
I would die for you
I would kill for you
I will steal for you
I'd do time for you
I would wait for you
I'd make room for you
I'd sail ships for you,
To be close to you
To be part of you
Because I believe in you
I believe in you
I would die for you'
~ Garbage,  "#1 Crush"
 
 
 

'I ran and I ran, I was looking for me
I ran to the lakes and up to the hills.
I ran and I ran, I am looking there still.
I ran and I ran, I'm still running away'
~ Madonna, "Mer Girl"
 

'No, I'm not going to die. I'm going to live. Just not as long as you are.'
~ Leelee Sobieski as Samantha Cavanaugh in "Here on Earth"
 
 

'Nothing that you say will release you
Nothing that you pray would forgive you
Nothing's what your words mean to me
Something that you did will destroy you
Something that you said will stay with me
Long after you're dead and gone
Nothing said could change the fact
My trust was blind, you broke the pact
If God's my witness, God must be blind
Take it back, I dare you, take it back
No you can't, you should have thought of that
What's inside a man that goes so wrong?
Choke on guilt that's far too good for you
Say one word, I'll laugh and bury you
And leave you in the place where you left me'
~ Garbage, "As Heaven is Wide"
 
 

'It begins where it ends... in nothingness. A nightmare born from deepest fears, coming to me unguarded.
Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound, touched by others but never held.
On a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflected back upon me. Until at last I reached the end. Facing a truth I could no longer deny. Alone, as ever.'
~ Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, Episode 5x07, "Emily"
 

'For everything you hate about yourself - forgive yourself.
For everything you love about yourself - forgive yourself.
For everything you're ashamed of.
For everything you're proud of.
For everything you want to hide.
For everything you want to show.
For everything that didn't turn out the way it should have.
For everything you are.
For everything you wanted to be.
Forgive yourself.'
~ Jonas Gardell, "En komikers uppväxt", translated from Swedish by moi
 
 

'Hanging by threads of palest silver
I could have stayed that way forever
Nothing could ever seem to touch me
I lose what I love most
Did you know I was lost until you found me?
Stroke of luck or gift from God?
The hand of fate or devil's claws?
From below or saints above?
You came to me
Here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
It's falling down and all around me, falling
You say that you'll be there to catch me
Or will you only try to trap me
These are the rules I make
Our chains were meant to break
You'll never change me'
~ Garbage, "A Stroke of Luck"
 
 

'Just break me
Shake me
Hate me
Take me over
When the madness stops, then you will be alone'
~ Savage Garden, "Break Me Shake Me"
 
 

'Everyone I know has gone away
Died or left or just forgot to stay
Sometimes took for granted
Sometimes turned away
Sometimes didn't say what I meant to say'
~ Garbage, "Dog New Tricks"
 
 

'But now, I ask her to lie. To the people lying to us. A dangerous lie to find the truth. To find the men who would be revealed as its enemy. As our enemy. As the enemy within.'
~ David Duchovny as Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files, Episode 5x02, "Redux"
 
 

'Crashing silent, broken down
Fallen into night
Who gave up and who gave in?
I'll go without a fight
Cut me down or cut me dead
Cut me in or out
Kiss me blind time after time, take away my doubt'
~ Garbage, "Fix Me Now"
 
 

'Until I learn to love myself I am never ever loving anybody else'
~ Madonna, "Secret"
 
 

'Between these walls
And darkened halls
I've done my time
If I should die
Before I wake
Then you'll know why
Send me an angel to love
I need to feel a little piece of heaven
Send me an angel to love
I'm afraid I'll never get to heaven'
~ Garbage, "My Lover's Box"
 
 

'It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live'
~ "The Rose", written by Amanda McBroom, performed by Bette Midler
 
 

'This is what he pays me for
I'll show you how it's done
You learn to love the pain you feel
Like father like son
The queerest of the queer
Hide inside your head
The blindest of the blind
The deadest of the dead
You're hungry 'cause you starve
While holding back the tears
Choking on your smile
A fake behind the fear'
~ Garbage, "Queer"
 
 

'For the first time I feel time like a heartbeat. The seconds pumping in my breast like a reckoning.
The numinous mysteries that once seemed so distant and unreal threatening clarity in the present of a truth, entertained not in youth, but only in its passage. I feel these  words as if their meanings were weight lifted from me, knowing that you will read them and share my burden as I have come to trust no other. That you shall know my heart, look in to it, finding there the memory and experience that belong to you, that are you. It's a comfort for me now as I feel the tethers loose, and the prospects darken for the continuance of journey that began not so long ago, and which began again with a fate shaken and strengthen by your convictions. If not for which I  might never have been so strong now, as I cross to face you, and look at you incomplete. Hoping that you will forgive me for not making the rest of the journey with you.'
~ Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, Episode 4x15, "Memento Mori"
 
 

'You pretend you're anything
Just to be adored
Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in faith
Don't believe in anything that you can't break
What drives you on can drive you mad
A million lies to sell yourself
Is all you ever had
Don't believe in love
Don't believe in hate
Don't believe in anything that you can't waste
Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in pain
Don't believe in anyone that you can't tame'
~ Garbage, "Stupid Girl"
 
 

'A lone pair of watchful eyes oversee the living
Feel the presence all around
A tortured soul
A wound unhealing
No regrets or promises
The past is gone'
~  Savage Garden, "You Can Still Be Free"
 
 

'I never claimed to be your savior
I said I had a dirty mouth
Stop analyzing my behavior
If you're too dumb to work it out
I've got to keep myself together
You know I hate to disappoint
A masochistic lamb to slaughter
Maybe you miss the point?
You should get to know me better
No one's ever what they seem'
~ Garbage, "Dumb"
 
 

'Why did I act like you mattered?
It was silly of me to believe
That if I just opened my heart things would come naturally
Joke's on me
I did not ask for love letters, so why did you give them to me?
How could I let your intentions get over me?
So in love, so naive'
~ TLC, "I Miss You So Much"
 
 

'Somebody get me out of here
I'm tearing at myself
Nobody gives a damn about me
Or anybody else
And still you call me codependent
Somehow you lay the blame on me'
~ Garbage, "Medication"
 
 

'More than angry words I hate this silence, it's getting so loud
Well I want to scream but bitterness has silenced these emotions
It's getting hard to breathe
So tell me isn't happiness worth more than a gold diamond ring?
I'm willing to do anything to calm the storm in my heart
I've never been the praying kind, but lately I've been down upon my knees
Not looking for a miracle, just a reason to believe'
~ Savage Garden, "Hold Me"
 
 

'I used to adore you
I couldn't control you
There was nothing that I wouldn't do
To keep myself around and close to you
Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I couldn't care less'
~ Garbage, "Special"
 
 

'He said I am what I am so be the best that I can
And if them others don't like it then why should I give a damn?'
~ TLC, "My Life"
 
 

'Lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone
Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around?
Can't bear to face the truth
So sick he cannot move
And when it hurts he takes it out on you
She knows the human heart
And how to read the stars
Now everything's about to fall apart
I won't be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around?'
~ Garbage, "The Trick is to Keep Breathing"
 
 

'Time passes in moments ...  moments which, rushing past  define the path of a life just as surely as they lead towards its end.  How rarely do we stop to examine that path, to see the reasons why all things happen, to consider whether the path we take in life is our own making or simply one into which we drift with eyes closed.  But what if we could stop, pause to take stock of each precious moment before it passes?  Might we then see the endless forks in the road that have shaped a life?  And, seeing those choices, choose another path?'
~ Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, Episode 7x17, "all things"
 
 

'You could have kissed me like this wasn't gonna last
Kept me from saying something I'll never take back
You could have held me like there was no chance
Of me waking up where I am
You could have stopped short of every dream I ever had'
~ Gary Barlow, "So Help Me Girl"
 
 

'You're taking me over, over and over
I'm falling over, over and over
Drown in me one more time
Hide inside me tonight
Do what you want to do
Just pretend
Happy end
Let me know
Let it show
Ending with letting go
Let's pretend
Happy end'
~ Garbage, "You Look so Fine"
 
 

'Don't go making all these promises you know you cannot keep
There's a time to play a king and a time to be a thief
'Cause if you're making all these promises you know you cannot keep
You know time will be the thief and your fallen king will end up alone'
~ Savage Garden, "Promises"
 
 

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