takshimada’s most recent Quotables

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'

One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one’s merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.

But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him..

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists.

Thought is the brain's three milliards
Of cells from the inside out.
Billions of games of billiards
Marked up as Faith and Doubt.

My Faith, but their collisions;
My logic, but their enzymes;
Their pink epinephrin, my visions;
Their white epinephrin, my crimes.

Since I am the felt arrangement
Of ten to the ninth times three,
Each atom in its estrangement
Must yet be prophetic of me.

The Internet is my box of LEGOs.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

A heart shattered in a thousand pieces...has more surface area.

The way a book smells when you thumb through it. The way quiet winter air makes you feel like no one else exists. The smell of the woods after a thunderstorm. That split second before your chair tips back. The feeling right before you cry. The euphoria before the heartbreak. That moment when you wonder if they think of you the way you think of them. These things, I live for.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Unable are the loved to die,
For love is immortality,
Nay, it is deity.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.