Memorable Passages

[Chesty P.]

[Chesty P.]

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

-W. Somerset Maughm

[BaitongBoy]

One thing you cannot know:
The sudden extinction of every alternative,
The unexpected crash of the iron cataract.
You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it.
You only know what it is not to hope:
You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you
Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless
Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

― T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion

[Boon Mee]

[Boon Mee]

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh, didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh, I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo figaro magnifico
(I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me)
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
(Let him go) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let him go) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let me go) Will not let you go
(Let me go) Will not let you go
(Let me go) Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh mamma mia, mamma mia) Mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby!
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here!

Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows

Songwriter: Freddie Mercury (R.I.P)

[Mid]

shouldn't this be in your quotes thread ?

[Mid]

Mama, just killed a man

snip

Songwriter: Freddie Mercury (R.I.P)

not worthy of a memorable passage

[Boon Mee]

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth

And roll in ashes

Mourn as for and only son

A lamentation most bitter.

For suddenly the destroyer

Will com upon us.

Jeremiah 6:26

[Boon Mee]

The Dark Man whispered in my ear,

He came last night at Midnight clear,

"I bring you news, but not of cheer,

I bring no cheer, but only tears.

I bring the tears to drown your fears,

I bring the fears of all your years."


Sergio Velazquez, "The Dark Man"

[BaitongBoy]

, One Hundred Years of Solitude

[BaitongBoy]

Robert G. Ingersoll, On the Gods and Other Essays

[BaitongBoy]

, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

[BaitongBoy]

Plato

[BaitongBoy]

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

[BaitongBoy]

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.

Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.

Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy