“I’d be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who'd sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of fame; the ignorant buffoons that live in a one-dimensional 140-character world. Tweet tweet, roar roar, caw caw, more like baa baa.”
Source: Forlorn Passions
“If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years”
Source: Stantasyland: Stantasyland: Quips, Quotes & Quandaries
“A volte penso che in tempi di profonda angoscia sia una consolazione sapere che il mondo, tutto sommato, se ne infischia.”
Source: A Suitable Boy
“La vita è imprevedibile,
non segue mai i binari,
non si sa mai cosa ci riservi,
ci trascina da un luogo all’altro,
come oggetti trasportati dalla corrente,
ci fa conoscere diverse persone,
ci avvicina e ci allontana.
Ci fa andare in contro a problemi,
come navi verso gli scogli,
ci fa attraversare tempeste,
nubi di incertezza,
venti gelidi di tristezza.”
Source: Quello che il silenzio nasconde
“E se già fossi
chi credo di non poter mai
essere.”
Source: Spiraleggiante: Raccolta di poesie
“I am not ruined. I am ruination.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!”
Source: Barrack Room Ballads & Departamental Ditties and Ballads
“Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?”
Source: decline and fall
“Somehow, she knew that she and Levan were at the center of something enormous and devestating, something that would end in mutual ruin. Something that would not just unmake them both--it would unmake everything. Of course, it was very possible she was just in love.”
Source: Silvercloak
“But it is in death where we find sweet things, Mr Ryan.”
Source: Rosie: An Old Castle Novel