Marylanders Traveling Quotes & Sayings

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them. — Christian Marclay

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. — Socrates

If you've got a suicide wish, it's not my place to stop you tying the rope. — Anna Martin

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion. — Rose Macaulay

These questions are punctuated by other questions, as diverse as "Will I ever do time?" and "Did this girl have a trusting heart?" The smell of meat and blood clouds up the condo until I don't notice it anymore. And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer - all of it was wrong, without any final purpose. All it came down to was: die or adapt. I imagine my own vacant face, the disembodied voice coming from its mouth: These are terrible times. Maggots already writhe across the human sausage, the drool pouring from my lips dribbles over them, and still I can't tell if I'm cooking any of this correctly, because I'm crying too hard and I have never really cooked anything before. — Bret Easton Ellis

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. — Mark Hopkins

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault - as she pounded her fist to her chest three times as if pounding shut a door to keep her guilt from escaping. — Rita Leganski

In that atrocious second I understood that desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual idea of hell and its horror. — Octave Mirbeau

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference? — Maureen Child

We are mere part of a grand whoe, in no way superior, not at all the angels in mortal attire we pretend to be. — Rick Yancey

Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say. — Rosemary Crossley