Things were getting to me. Just how people are. How they always expect you to be a certain way. Even your best friend.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

The worst feeling is suddenly realizing that you don't measure up. And that, in the past, when you thought you did, you were a fool.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

When I was little, I worshipped Halloween. And truthfully, part of me still does. 'Cause it's your one chance to be someone else.

-- Angela, My So-Called Life

It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says, "To whom it may concern."

-- Anonymous Belfast resident

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

-- Susan B. Anthony

I was me, but now he's gone.
-- Metallica, Fade to Black

My mother always said she was the kind of person who was her daughter's best friend. So, I thought Great! Not only do I have a shitty mother, but my best friend is a loser bitch.
-- Dedee, The Opposite of Sex

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism, and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
-- Florence King

You start out depressed, everything turns out a pleasant surprise.
-- Lloyd, Say Anything

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempts to prove otherwise constitutes inacceptable behavoir.
-- Fran Lebowitz

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate and you who are tortured body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
-- Antonio Artaud

Communism doesn't work because people like to own things.
-- Frank Zappa

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and the suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
-- A.S. Byatt

She was no longer wrestling with her grief, but could sit down with it as a lasing companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
-- George Eliot

It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.
-- Emelio Zapata

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-- Fran Lebowitz

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
-- Dante Alighieri

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
-- Lou Reed

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
-- Iris Murdoch

You aren't ill; it is just that you are made of second-rate material."
-- Natalia Ginzburg, Family Sayings

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
-- David Bowie

Every artist was first an amateur.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If Kuwait grew carrots, we wouldn't give a damn.
-- Lawrence Korb

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
-- Antonio Gramsci

Drunkeness is nothing but a voluntary madness.
-- Louis Seneca

But truly, I have wept too much! The dawns are heartbreaking Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
-- Gloria Steinem

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
-- Nietzsche

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
-- George Eliot

Abandon all hope, you who entere here.
-- Dante Alighieri

We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make one.
-- Gore Vidal

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyound measure.
-- Nelson Mandela

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you!
-- Cleopatra

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
-- James Thurber, 1961

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
-- Henry Kissinger

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
-- Robert Ingersoll

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
-- Paul Newman