Wilhelm Raabe Quotes

#1. I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.
I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.
I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.
I shone because I thought you loved me ...

Emilie Autumn

#2. Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries in my hand.

Anne Carson

#3. If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn't make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn't exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

Andrea Gibson

#4. People break, I guess. Everyone.

Patrick Ness

#5. Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Laini Taylor

#6. We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.

Bertrand Russell

#7. One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.

Jane Hirshfield

#8. A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#9. Mountain climbers think of the mountain not of the danger.

Marty Rubin

#10. Today is the only guarantee you get.

Anna Quindlen

#11. A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Wilhelm Raabe

#12. I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

Zoe Lister-Jones