“Happy endings are a lie. The only ending is death. But maybe that's the happiest ending of all.”
Warren Fisher
"Fuck death. I’ve never been afraid of death. It is life that scares me. Death is beautiful in its binary simplicity. Life is just one fucking thing after another, after another, after another..."
Warren Fisher
“I was fucked at conception, life just sealed the deal.”
Warren Fisher
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool
returneth to his folly.”
Proverbs
ch.26. v.11
“Life for life,
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand,
foot for foot,
Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe
for stripe.”
Exodus, ch.21, v.23
“The Lord is a man of war.”
Exodus, ch.15, v.3
“In much wisdom is much grief: and he that
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
Ecclesiastes, ch.1, v.8
“Strike him so that he can feel that he is
dying.”
Caligula
(Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus)
“No one ever suddenly became depraved.”
Juvenal
“Call no man happy until he dies, he is at
best fortunate.”
Plutarch
“Morte certa, hora
incerta.”
“Death
is certain, just the hour unknown.”
Anon
“Qui
desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.”
“Let him who desires peace, prepare for
war.”
Vegetius, ‘Epitoma Rei Militaris’
“Laws are silent in time of war.”
Cicero, ‘Pro Milone’
“Quod me nutrit me destruit”
“What nourishes me also destroys me”
Anon
“It is as well that war is so terrible. We
should grow too fond of it.”
Robert E. Lee, after Battle Fredericksburg
“Der
Krieg findet immer einen Ausweg.”
“War always finds a way.”
Bertolt Brecht, ‘Mutter Courage’, 1939
“One observes, they have gone too long
without a war here. Where is morality to come from in such a case, I ask? Peace
is nothing but slovenliness, only war creates order.”
Bertolt Brecht, ‘Mutter Courage’, 1939
“Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill
millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
Jean Rostand, ‘Pensees d’un biologiste’, 1939
“What is hell?
Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to
escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always
alone.”
T.S.Eliot, ‘The Cocktail Party’, 1950
“Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.”
T.S.Eliot, ‘The Family Reunion ’, 1939
“Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living.”
T.S.Eliot, ‘Murder in the Cathedral’, 1935
“Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come down to
brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death.
I’ve been born, and once is enough.”
T.S.Eliot, ‘Sweeney Agonistes’, 1932
“Any man has to, needs to, wants to
Once in a lifetime, do a girl in.”
T.S.Eliot, ‘Sweeney Agonistes’, 1932
“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale”
Shakespeare, ‘King John’
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the
gods;
They kill us for their sport.”
Shakespeare, ‘King Lear’, 1605-6
“You are not worth the dust which the rude
wind
Blows in your face.”
Shakespeare, ‘King Lear’, 1605-6
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
Shakespeare, ‘Macbeth’, 1606
“I am not what I am.”
Shakespeare, ‘Othello’, 1602-4
“I shall despair. There is no creature loves
me;
And if I die, no soul will pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I
myself
Find in myself no pity to myself.”
Shakespeare, ‘Richard III’, 1591
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
Shakespeare, ‘Richard III’, 1591
“Love is the delusion that one woman differs
from another.”
H.L.Mencken, ‘Chrestomathy’, 1949
“Conscience, the inner voice that warns us
that someone may be looking.”
H.L.Mencken, ‘A Little Book in C Major’, 1916
“When women kiss it always reminds one of
prizefighters shaking hands.”
H.L.Mencken, 1949
“Men have a much better time of it than
women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier.”
H.L.Mencken, 1949
“Men always try to make virtues of their
weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life become piety.”
H.L.Mencken, 1956
“Men are the only animals who devote
themselves so assiduously to making one another unhappy. It is, I suppose, one
of their godlike qualities.”
H.L.Mencken, 1956
“The basic fact about human existence is not
that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.”
H.L.Mencken
“Morality is the herd-instinct in the
individual.”
Nietzsche, ‘Die froliche Wissenschaft’, 1882
“The Christian resolution to find to find
the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
Nietzsche, ‘Die froliche Wissenschaft’, 1882
“He who fights monsters might take care lest
he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss
gazes into you.”
Nietzsche, ‘Jenseits von Gut und Bose’, 1886
“The thought of suicide is a great source of
comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.”
Nietzsche, ‘Jenseits von Gut und Bose’, 1886
“For believe me: the secret for harvesting
from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is – to live dangerously.”
Nietzsche, 1882
“Moral judgement and condemnation is the
favourite form of revenge of the spiritually limited on those who are less so.”
Nietzsche, ‘Beyond Good & Evil’, 1886
“The cure for imaginary sorrow is real
sorrow.”
Nietzsche
“A man who has not passed through the
inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
Carl Jung, 1962
“Thinking is the great enemy of perfection.”
Joseph Conrad
“Some men go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having to see all it may contain of perfidy, of violence, and of terror.”
Joseph Conrad
“There are no conditions of life to which a
man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone
about him.”
Tolstoy, ‘Anna Karenina’, 1875-7
“All newspaper and journalistic activity is
an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.”
Tolstoy, 1871
“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
Samuel Butler
“Life is an incurable disease.”
Abraham Cowley
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
Samuel Beckett, ‘Waiting for Godot’
“Man only notices his sorrows; he takes his
happiness for granted.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘Notes from the Underground’
“Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted
by Incapacity.”
William Blake, ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’
“If you live long enough, you’ll see that
every victory turns into a defeat.”
Simone de Beavoir
“All of that animals excepting man know that
principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
Samuel Butler
“To do nothing is in every man’s power.”
Samuel Johnson
“Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp;
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.”
Dorothy Parker, ‘Resume’, 1937
“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.”
Sylvia Plath, ‘Lady Lazarus’, 1963
“Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that
horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
Joseph Heller, ‘Picture This’, 1988
“Every man’s life ends the same
way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one
man from another.”
Ernest
Hemingway
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I have often thought upon death, and I find
it the least of all evils.”
Francis Bacon
“From my rotting body, flowers
shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
Edvard
Munch
“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty
creature.”
Moliere
“The world itself is but a large prison, out
of which some are daily led to execution.”
Sir Walter Raleigh
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for
he shall never be disappointed.”
Alexander Pope
“Life is a disease... Sleep is a palliative. Death is the cure.”
Nicholas-Sebastien Chamfort
“Dear World, I am leaving because I am
bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in
this cesspool. Good luck.”
George Sanders, suicide note, 1972
“When you have to kill a man it
cost nothing to be polite.”
Winston
Churchill
“I have no life. I have no death.”
Samurai prayer recited
before going into battle
“When you’re in the battlefield, survival is
all there is. Death is the only emotion.”
Sam Fuller, 1991
“Now is the only thing that’s real.”
Charles
Manson
“Death solves all problems: no man, no
problem.”
Joseph Stalin
“Friends
come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
Anon
“Suicide
is the most sincere form of self-criticism.”
Anon
“He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.”
Proverb
“Man plans, God laughs”
Jewish Proverb
“Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.”
Philander Johnson
“I love mankind – it’s people I can’t
stand.”
Charles M. Schultz
“Life is a concentration camp. You’re stuck
here and there’s no way out and you can only rage impotently against your
persecutors.”
Woody Allen
“Life is a practical joke.”
Paul Bocuse
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer
after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.”
James G. Huneker
“Life is just one damned thing after
another.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Life is a tragedy is close-up, but a comedy
in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of
those I had to kill because they pissed me off.”
Emo Philips
“My young brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him
we get buried under the earth and the worms eat our bodies. I guess I should
have told him the truth – that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally, but I
didn’t want to upset him.”
Emo Philips
“It doesn’t matter if the
cup is half-full of half-empty because whatever is in it is evaporating
anyway.”
Emo Philips
“The only solution to the violence problem is to take all the
violent people out and shoot them.”
Emo Philips
“This
is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Only
after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything
that you are free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving.
Everything is falling apart.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You
are not a beautiful and unique snowflake; you are the same decaying organic
matter as everything else. We are all part of the same compost heap. We are the
all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You
have to give up. You have to realise that some day you will die. Until that
day, you are useless.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“One
man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.”
Malcolm McDowell, in movie
‘IF…’
“People
sleep peaceably at night because rough men are willing to do violence on their
behalf.”
George Orwell
“I wanted a bunch of red-blooded American
soldiers who lived together, ate together, worked together, screwed together
and if necessary died together. You can get together a half-assed team in six
weeks, but I wasn’t going to lead a half-assed team.”
Colonel Charlie Beckwith
“This is a bunch of bullshit. You don’t need to know none of
this shit, man, we’re just fucking killers. Hired to kill, joined to kill, and
we kill. They tell us who to kill, we go kill ‘em.”
US
“Pain is just weakness leaving the body.”
USMC saying
“A sadist kills for pleasure, a mercenary
for money, a marine for both.”
USMC saying
“Don’t
try to run. You’ll only die tired!”
US Army Special Forces
“Learning
by pain, motivation by horror.”
Motto of the German
Infantry
“The
careful application of terror is another form of communication.”
Anon
“Anything
worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.”
Anon
“God
grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot shoot,
The courage to shoot the things I can,
And the wisdom to hide the bodies.”
Anon
“Some
people are only alive because it is against the law to shoot them.”
Anon
“It
takes 26 muscles to frown, but only 6 to pull the pin out of a grenade.”
The Blind Sniper,
“If
you love something, set it free…and if it doesn’t return, hunt it down and kill
it.”
Poster & T-shirt
“The
Anon
“The
only thing I feel when I kill is the recoil from my rifle.”
Michael H, Tactical
Response Unit sniper
US Army Ranger Rules
of Gunfighting –
1. Bring a gun. Preferably bring at least two guns. Bring all your
friends who have guns.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap.
Life is expensive.
12. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you
lose.
22. Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone
you meet.
“Deny everything…admit nothing…make counter-accusations.”
Anon
“I go shuffling out of life just to hide in death a while.”
Nick Cave, ‘The
Mercy Seat’
“I hurt myself today,
To see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain,
The only thing that’s real.
The needle tears a hole,
The old familiar sting.
Try to kill it all away,
But I remember everything.”
Trent Reznor,
‘Hurt’
“I shot a man in
Johnny Cash,
‘Folsom Prison Blues’
“I look inside myself and see my heart is black.”
The Rolling Stones, ‘Paint It Black’
“Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary
had larger penises than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar’s
own figuring, hardly human at all.”
