Flowers For Algernon All Quotes

#1. Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

Clint Catalyst

#2. Who's to say that death is better than your darkness?

Daniel Keyes

#3. Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.

Big Daddy Kane

#4. I may not have all the time I thought I had...

Daniel Keyes

#5. Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#6. And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about the cathedral of my childhood: 'He's like all the other children. He's a good boy.

Daniel Keyes

#7. Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Daniel Keyes

#8. Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

Daniel Keyes

#9. Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

Nicola Yoon

#10. All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the labyrinth to where she was waiting. I loved her with more than my body.

Daniel Keyes

#11. You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. For whatsoe'er their sufferings were before,
That change they covet makes them suffer more.
All other errors but disturb a state;
But innovation is the blow of fate.

John Dryden

#13. And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: ' ... the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

Daniel Keyes

#14. Why am I always looking at life through a window?

Daniel Keyes

#15. Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Joy Baluch

#16. Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.

Daniel Keyes

#17. In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Saul Bellow

#18. It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

Alice Cooper

#19. Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

Daniel Keyes

#20. Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt
They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving
knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice?

Daniel Keyes

#21. There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#22. What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

Cinda Williams Chima

#23. Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

Daniel Keyes

#24. I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

Daniel Keyes

#25. I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!

Tina Fey

#26. He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.

John Edward Williams

#27. The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#28. My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books.

Daniel Keyes

#29. I love the idea of doing totally different types of guys for different projects. I love that I get to do this. It's so fun.

Ben Schwartz

#30. I hold on to faith and hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#32. The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

Daniel Keyes

#33. I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others ... waiting.

Daniel Keyes

#34. Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Daniel Keyes

#35. You came, and the sun came after,
And the green grew golden above;
And the flag-flowers lightened with laughter,
And the meadowsweet shook with love

Algernon Charles Swinburne