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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
— H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
— H. P. Lovecraft

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
— H. P. Lovecraft

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
— H. P. Lovecraft

Herr God, Herr Lucifer, Beware. Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
— Sylvia Plath

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
— Sylvia Plath

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
— Sylvia Plath

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
— Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
— Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
— Emily Dickinson

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
— David Bowie

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.
— David Bowie

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
— David Bowie

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— Edgar Allan Poe

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
— Edgar Allan Poe

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

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.
— Siouxsie Sioux

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.
— Siouxsie Sioux

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
— Siouxsie Sioux

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
— Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
— Shakespeare

These violent delights have violent ends...
— Shakespeare

Not all those who wander are lost.
— J. R. R. Tolkien

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
— J. R. R. Tolkien

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
— Terry Pratchett

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
— Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
— Terry Pratchett

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
— Terry Pratchett

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice.
— Terry Pratchett

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
— T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
— T. S. Eliot

In my beginning is my end.
— T. S. Eliot