ShadowedFye's Clan

If you have any quotes that you like please feel free to send them to me. I am always collecting more and I only ask that there is some kind of source. Also if you see something marked as Unknown but you know where it came from please let me know so that I can correct it.

"I know that I know nothing" - Socrates

"Natural selection is anything but random." -- Richard Dawkins

"The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane." - Virgil Abloh

"Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine." - Tomi Adeyemi

"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions." - Primo Levi

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the best thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll

"left by themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse." - Murphy's 3rd Law

"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults." - Brian Aldiss

"Our fears are like dragons hiding our deepest treasures." - Unknown

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." - Malachy McCourt

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. That's what makes it so damn beautiful. - Roy Mustang (FMA:B)

War does not determine who is right-only who is left - Riza Hawkeye (FMA:B)

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.” ― Victor Vale (Vicious)

Wow Tsuna, you’ve got some skills out there, getting yourself hurt in a hospital. - Reborn (KHR)

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof. - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

Reason is the slave to passion. - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

Logic is panics prey. - Kurama/Shuichi (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Alone. Yes, that is the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor substitute. - Stephen King

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true." - Wizard's First Rule

“You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.” - Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

“To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.” - Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Whoever said, 'Out of sight, Out of mind", never had a spider disappear in their bedroom." - Unknown

"Being positive isn't pretending everything is good - It's seeing the good in everything." - Unknown

“'You,' he said, 'are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain." -Emilie Autumn

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." -Clive Staples Lewis

"I have been bent and broken, but-- I hope-- into a better shape."-Emily Dickinson

The reason warning signs, laws, etc. exist is because someone did something stupid and now we have to be told not to do that stupid thing. - Unknown

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” - G.K. Chesterton

"I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” - Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.” - Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” - Frida Kahlo

I created my own fears
The mist of sorrow encircled my thoughts
The demons came forth from the shadows
Bringing dark disease" - Wintersun, Awaken From The Dark Slumber

We are here to care for the garden
The wonder of, birth of, every form most beautiful"
~Nightwish, The Greatest Show On Earth

"Patience is not a gift, but a lesson to be relearned daily." - Qui-Gon Jinn Jedi Apprentice #4, The Mark of the Crown (by Jude Watson)

Comfort is the enemy of progress" - The Greatest Showman

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who tries to make everyone happy, can't be happy themselves. - Unknown

"Find the place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." - Joseph Campbell.

"Ghosts are present among us because we do not let them go."

"Gold will blind the admirer."

"The more you love roses, the more you must bear with thorns."

"Fear nights when the wolves are silent and the moon howls."

"Nature consumes all it creates."

"Death walks the streets of plaguebound cities."

"Solitude suits me better than good company." - Unknown

"What matters isn’t if people are good or bad. What matters is, if they’re trying to be better today than they were yesterday. You asked me where my hope comes from? That’s my answer." – Michael, The Good Place

"It's better to live a life of "Oh wells" than a life of "What ifs" - Unknown

"When a man becomes pure evil he is as good as dead" - dr. Edward Steam

Moderation and Toleration are the cornerstones of Civilization - Unknown

"All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." - Unknown

"The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him." - Unknown

"We’re all a little weird and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and all in mutual weirdness and call it love." - Unknown

Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters... The silence is your answer." -- Javik, Mass Effect 3

"Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching." - C.S. Lewis

"A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea... Accepting of all that there is... And can be..." -Fishing Hamlet Priest, Bloodborne

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - Unknown

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." -James Baldwin

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's So Much Easier To See The World In Black And White. Gray? I Don't Know What To Do With Gray." Garrus Vakarian From Mass Effect

"Be who you are, even if it kills you. It will. Over and over again. Even as you live." - Joy Harjo

"Before I Leaped, I Should Have Seen The View From Halfway Down" Secretariat (Bojack Horseman)

"I'm too weird to live but much to rare to die!"
-Bat Country by Avenged

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. I've been given a bad hand, but I've got an awful lot to live for" - Set Me Free by The Amity Affliction

"The silence is so perfectly silent
Even whisper is like a shout
I would not change a second
Not youth, not frantic growing pains
Not the ice that broke, not the church bells
You were my spouse then, you are my spouse now"'Olet puolisoni nyt' by Samuli Putro

"Right. 'Cause I'm in a great place to optimize firing algorithms now."-Garrus Vakarian Mass Effect 2

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill. -“Requiem” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ehkä ainoa virheeni oli ampua musketilla, kun kanuunasta olisi ollut enemmän apua. - Perhaps my only mistake was to shoot a musket, when a canon would have been a greater help.
- 1793 by Niklas Natt och Dag

Harakoiden on parempi raakkua eikä yrittää laulaa satakielen tavoin. - It is better for magpies to croak, not try and sing like a nightingale.
- 1793 by Niklas Natt och Dag

Ihmisarvo on sellainen **** ihme juttu, että se on varattu niille, joilla on mahikset puolustaa itseään. - Human dignity is that kind of a **** miracle thing, that it is reserved for people who have the means to defend themselves.
- Anomalia by Laura Gustafsson.

"The greatest power in the world is that which turns fear into curiosity." - Unknown

"Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum."
- Rule of Acquisition #75, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."- Unknown

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. - Edgar Allan Poe

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."-Mewtwo, Mewtwo Strikes Back 1999

"We do have a lot in common. The same earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what's the same instead of always looking at what's different...Well, who knows?" Meowth, Mewtwo Strikes Back 1999

"You gotta make a friend of pain, because hurricanes make flowers grow." -Pain Told Love, Tribe Society

“Don’t set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm.” - Penny Reid

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” - Bernard M. Baruch

From one maker of music to another, across all worlds, all times, no matter what you do or what you become: You are nothing less than beautiful - Flameshirt.

"Accept the unexpected, assess your options, move forward." -John Robinson (Lost in Space 2018)

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Si ceux qui disent du mal de moi savaient exactement ce que je pense d'eux, ils en diraient bien davantage."
If those who say bad things about me knew what I really think of them, they would say so much more! - Sacha Guitry

"the question isn't 'What are we going to do?', The question is 'What aren't we going to do?"
-Ferris Beuller (Beuller's day off)

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." - Optimus Prime

"Everyone matters to someone." - Unknown

"Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real." - Ned Vizzini

“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!” - Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron

If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared. - Glennon Doyle Melton

Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. The true witches know that.
-The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
–Ferris Bueller

Good Things Never Come In Twos (But Bad Things Do) - Gintama

“I am a monument to all your sins.” - Halo

“The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”
Camille Paglia, “It’s a Mans World, and It Always Will Be” for Time Magazine

“I refuse to die until things are better and that is a threat.” - zadiest on Tumblr

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow / die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- John Donne, Sonnet 10

May God change his world / For your sake, sweet, and make it mild as heaven, / And juster than I have found you.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, book 2, lines 1189-1191

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: / The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep / Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, / ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses, lines 54-57

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

After all, this is who we are; / Made of dirt and bit by stars / In the blink of an eye we'll be undermined / When they bury our grains in the sands of time.
- Dirt Poor Robins, "All There Is"

The rich never spend any gold of their own! / Sure they hold it away like a dog and its bone- / But they end on their backs among the nettles and stones! / And I hear there's no pockets in shrouds!
- "The Rake"; traditional Irish song, adapted by the Irish Rovers

We're drunk but drinking, sunk but sinking / They thought us blind, we were just blinking
- The Amazing Devil, "The Horror and the Wild"

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” - Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

"I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do."
- Angus Delaney, Night in the Woods

It may be that dragons really did exist and they were so valuable they were simply hunted to extinction. ~ Carole Fontaine

"When one tries to master something, it ends in either success or failure. But it is in the attempt itself where you find the true value." - Oki (Okami)

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours” - Alan Bennett, The History Boys

Grief, I’ve learned, is really love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot give. The more you loved someone, the more you grieve. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes and in that part of your chest that gets empty and hollow feeling. The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent. Grief is just love with no place to go. http://allmylooseends.com/author/jamie/

And crawling on the planet's face
Some insects called the human race...
Lost in time
And lost in space
And meaning. - Rocky Horror Picture Show - Super Heroes

"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall..." Edgar Allen Poe - The Masque of the Red Death

“Make the World a bit better or more beautiful because You have lived in It.” - Edward Bok

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - Unknown

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."-Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)

"Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling." by Oscar Wilde

"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war is o every man against every man." - Thomas Hobbes

"Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes." ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” - William Wallace

“Grief is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” - Jamie Anderson

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss

"Think of the power of the universe– turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you…" - Charlie Chaplin

"... when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small, but I'm also big. Im big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me." - Neil Degrasse Tyson

". . . I want to hope again. And I want it to hurt. Because that means it meant something. It means I am... something, at least . . . Pretty amazing to be something, at least." Night in the Woods (2017)

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." gospel of John 15:13

"Our fears are like dragons hiding our deepest treasures." Not quite? "Our fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasures." - Ray Wylie Hubbard

"I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society." - Tahereh Mafi

"You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway." - al'Lan Mandragoran, Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

"In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important" -the doctor (Doctor Who)

"Everything is exciting! Particularly existence. Existence is the most thrilling fact of all" -carlos, welcome to nightvale