Messinin Quotes & Sayings

The individual who rebels against the arrangements of society is ostracized, branded, stoned. So be it. I am willing to take the risk; my principles are very pagan. I will live my own life as it pleases me. I am willing to do without your hypocritical respect; I prefer to be happy.
The inventors of the Christian marriage have done well, simultaneously to invent immortality. I, however, have no wish to live eternally. When with my last breath everything as far as Wanda von Dunajew is concerned comes to an end here below, what does it profit me whether my pure spirit joins the choirs of angels, or whether my dust goes into the formation of new beings?
Shall I belong to one man whom I don't love, merely because I have once loved him? No, I do not renounce; I love everyone who pleases me, and give happiness to everyone who loves me.
Is that ugly? No, it is more beautiful by far. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Kind of like winning the fifty-meter ass-stroke in the Loserlympics — J.R. Ward

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music. — David Bowie

It was in the fishbowl of the meeting room that everything went completely insane, and this was coming from someone who'd just been visited in a dream by Konstantin Black. — Amanda Hocking

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating — Muso Soseki

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today! — Carmela Dutra

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs. — Thornton Wilder

You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue — Eoin Colfer