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"In my tortured ears there sounds an unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and a distant baying as of some gigantic hound. It is not dream-- it is not, I fear, even madness-- for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.
St, John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and such is my knowledge that I am about to blow out my brains for fear I shall be mangled in the same way. Down unlit and limitless corridors of eldritch phantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to my self-annihilation"
H.P. Lovecraft. Now that is a moving introduction to a short story and can be used as a perfect metaphor.
St, John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and such is my knowledge that I am about to blow out my brains for fear I shall be mangled in the same way. Down unlit and limitless corridors of eldritch phantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to my self-annihilation"
H.P. Lovecraft. Now that is a moving introduction to a short story and can be used as a perfect metaphor.
"The opposite of truth is dare."
"Ask a man to dig his grave and you may as well dig your own."
"Ask a man to dig his grave and you may as well dig your own."
You ask for something beautiful and/or something devastating. I couldn't really come up with a quote that fitted that, so I wrote something else. Not sure how beautiful / devastating you'll find it, but I like it.
We found ourselves in Paradise. A garden that stretched for miles, with the fairest sights any of us had ever seen. Everywhere, life sprung from the fertile soil. Beautiful trees grew as far as the eye could look, and peaceful animals lived there with no fear. Glistening blue lakes were plenty, and each one held beautiful fish of all colours. In order for us to live there for eternity, our only task was to tend the garden, and we were eager to tend something that beautiful. It was truly Paradise, and we were all bursting with happiness.
The days went on and we frolicked in our new home. No one ever went hungry, and the garden remained beautiful. We were so happy, we forgot that bad things could happen. We had not seen misery in what seemed a thousand years, and we dismissed the thought of anything bad happening to us. Indeed it was Paradise, in every meaning that word holds.
That was, until we saw the creeping death that hung over the entire garden. We, the inhabitants had not watered the garden in our state of bliss and ignorance of all else.
We would soon be punished, as the death swept away our happiness, as it also swept away all the life and fertility of Paradise.
We woke to the stench of rotting fruit as our Paradise had vanished, leaving behind only the memory of what we had been given but had forsaken. As we grew to understand how we had made our own bed, the dead garden began to seem more hellish with every breath we drew. Every time we inhaled the smell of dead fruit it tormented us with guilt, and grief of what we had brought on ourselves.
We could do nothing but grieve, until the grief grew to blind hatred for each other. We each became ignorant of our own part in the destruction of Paradise, and we blamed the other inhabitants. We are now forced to stay here forever, surrounded by our own hate, grief and guilt, until the end of days. Paradise has turned to Hell, and only we are to blame.
The days went on and we frolicked in our new home. No one ever went hungry, and the garden remained beautiful. We were so happy, we forgot that bad things could happen. We had not seen misery in what seemed a thousand years, and we dismissed the thought of anything bad happening to us. Indeed it was Paradise, in every meaning that word holds.
That was, until we saw the creeping death that hung over the entire garden. We, the inhabitants had not watered the garden in our state of bliss and ignorance of all else.
We would soon be punished, as the death swept away our happiness, as it also swept away all the life and fertility of Paradise.
We woke to the stench of rotting fruit as our Paradise had vanished, leaving behind only the memory of what we had been given but had forsaken. As we grew to understand how we had made our own bed, the dead garden began to seem more hellish with every breath we drew. Every time we inhaled the smell of dead fruit it tormented us with guilt, and grief of what we had brought on ourselves.
We could do nothing but grieve, until the grief grew to blind hatred for each other. We each became ignorant of our own part in the destruction of Paradise, and we blamed the other inhabitants. We are now forced to stay here forever, surrounded by our own hate, grief and guilt, until the end of days. Paradise has turned to Hell, and only we are to blame.
I'm actually pretty well known for these. Just a few of my own sayings:
"Once I was weak, but now I am strong. I was foolish, but now am wise. You may have more money than me, more friends, and a bigger house and a cooler car. Despite that, I am still smarter than you and can rip your head off those pathetic excuses for shoulders. When it comes down to it, I'm still better in all they ways that count."
"Go ahead, live a fulfilling life. Get married and have 2.7 children and buy a house in the suburbs. Wait 20 years. You will have car payments, college tuition, a mortgage, stress from work, be fat, balding and arthritic. Brag about how great you are compared to me. I'll be retired on a beach in Maui not caring."
"Remember, only you can prevent forests"
"You will die eventually. Try not to make a mess."
"The glass in neither half full or empty. I just drank it. Really, what kind of idiot pours water just to look at it?"
"Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time. EVER!"
My personal favorite
"I don't care...wait...no, still don't care."
"Once I was weak, but now I am strong. I was foolish, but now am wise. You may have more money than me, more friends, and a bigger house and a cooler car. Despite that, I am still smarter than you and can rip your head off those pathetic excuses for shoulders. When it comes down to it, I'm still better in all they ways that count."
"Go ahead, live a fulfilling life. Get married and have 2.7 children and buy a house in the suburbs. Wait 20 years. You will have car payments, college tuition, a mortgage, stress from work, be fat, balding and arthritic. Brag about how great you are compared to me. I'll be retired on a beach in Maui not caring."
"Remember, only you can prevent forests"
"You will die eventually. Try not to make a mess."
"The glass in neither half full or empty. I just drank it. Really, what kind of idiot pours water just to look at it?"
"Never take a laxative and a sleeping pill at the same time. EVER!"
My personal favorite
"I don't care...wait...no, still don't care."
"All artistic work depends on patronage. You can't sell culinary genius to people accustomed to eating with sporks."
"No matter what, you can still smile with all that blood on your hands. A hollow one can feel as real as a normal one until you find out what you are doing isn't worth smiling over."
A quote I made about sadistic soldiers. Also another one.
"With a world full of idiots I consider it a good thing to be odd. Odd means different. If I am strange for being smart then I want to be asylum worthy."
A quote I made about sadistic soldiers. Also another one.
"With a world full of idiots I consider it a good thing to be odd. Odd means different. If I am strange for being smart then I want to be asylum worthy."