The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

Post your best quotes here. (only text please, no images)

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. - Denis Diderot

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Caleb Colton

We wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes. – Paul Laurence Dunbar (from his poem We Wear A Mask)

"I'll stay awake/ 'Cause the dark's not taking prisoners tonight" "Ode to Sleep,"

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Jonathan Safran Foer

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Following the Equator, Mark Twain

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. - David Hare

. "You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun." — Shaun Hick

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake

"No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace."-H.P. Lovecraft

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses." — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

And we forget because we must and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

Success has always been a great liar. - Friedrich Nietzsche

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
― Vera Nazarian

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
-Khalil Gibran

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public. - P. T. Barnum

"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you." — Janet Jackson

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. - T. S. Eliot

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." — Og Mandino

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” —Tennessee Williams