Chelsea Taylor > Chelsea's Quotes

“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater”
― J. R. R. Tolkein

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me”
― Emily Dickinson

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.”
― Alan Rickman

“A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”
― Alan Rickman

“I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.”
― Alan Rickman

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands”
― Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

“You are still on your own; be stoic; don't panic; get through this hell to the generous sweet overflowing GIVING love of spring... dawn came, black and white gray into a frozen hell.

I lived: that once. And must shoulder the bundle, the burden of my dead selves until I, again, live.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho