Quotes, quotes, quotes!

[Aldhissla]

We did not have this thread on the old board, or if we did, it was long dead and buried before I joined
So there you go - post your favorite quotes from literature, movies, friends or wherever (may be both sentences or dialogues) Doing so in your native language (or the language of the person quoted) is encouraged - provided that you translate it for the others, of course.

I'll start of with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche that i stumbled upon a while ago and that I've already passed on a lot:

"Das Tragische an der Erfahrung ist, daß man sie erst macht, nachdem man sie gebraucht hätte."

--> "The tragedy about experience is that you make it only after you would have needed it."

Nietzsche is always right.

No idea who said it, but i like this one a lot because it contains so much truth...

"Licht am Ende des Tunnels koennte auch ein entgegenkommender Zug sein."

"Light at the end of the tunnel could also be a train coming towards you."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery— even if mixed with fear— that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man."
-Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe", a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein

i don't know who said it but it's what i live like

nobody asked me if i want to be born so nobody has to tell me how to live!

The one comes from South Park:
"But you swore it on the cross!"
"Yes, but this was" *pulls out another cross*"a doublecross!"

Sign on a bar wall-
Liquor in the front,poker in the rear.

I heard an interesting one tonight from a respected Photographer -

"Leap and the net will appear!"

...encouraging you to take risks and all

[Aldhissla]

"Shall each man find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone ? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn.Man! You may hate; but beware!your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish you from your happiness for ever. Are you to be happy, while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness ? You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains - revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food. I may die; but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.Beware, for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch with the williness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict!!!" (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein)

Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβάμαι τίποτα, είμαι ελεύθερος!

I hope nothing, I fear nothing, I am free

Nikos Kazantzakis

man,that's bleak.

Reminds me of this-
"I'm not happy,but I'm free"-Pete Cassanni

here's one i don't know the origin of-

everyone loves a winner,but when you lose,you lose alone.