Category Archives: FROM THE QUOTE BAG

For Degas, women were the heroes of modern life, the figures whose actions mattered – and those actions were the gestures of daily living. – Wendy Lesser   The two monsters – sex and drugs – have generated a new … Continue reading →

Oh, fair goddess, you who inspire through the eyes unto the heart sweet desire full of bitter thought, you nourish souls with sweet venom, feeding yourself on tears and sighs, you enoble whatever you regard, for no baseness can exist … Continue reading →

They did not have an inkling yet of the abysmal depths of a woman’s emotions, nor of the terrible seriousness of the dark forces of nature which appear in life along with such inexplicable contradictions, and to which we give … Continue reading →

I am really such a blind ass that never, in all these years, have I noticed anything of the entire vodoo cult, with its veneration of the snake and its thousand human sacrifices. And there my little tender Adelaide plays … Continue reading →

..a pitiless righteousness, a righteousness that will condemn everything except money… When that time comes anything that resembles virtue – nay, anything but ardent devotion to Plutus – will be regarded as vastly ridiculous. Justice – if, in this unfortunate … Continue reading →

Souls of those I have loved, souls of those I have sung, strengthen me, support me, rid me of lies and the corrupting vapours of the world; and you, O Lord God, grant me the grace to produce a few … Continue reading →

a few special quotes to help you make your day special!!!     Played out in dreadful reality and ritualistic acts…   –Colin Wilson     Poetry is, after all, fundamentally the representation of man’s empirically pathological condition.     … Continue reading →

Most of the universe is actually made of mysterious, invisible material of totally unknown origin.     — Michio Kahn     …at least I was quite aware that my soul had strayed into dirty back alleys, but that was … Continue reading →