some of my favorite quotes

here are some quotes i found in my signature files i use, but haven't used for a while. most are e.e. cummings and friedrich nietzsche.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• One has to pay dearly for immortality;
  one has to die several
  times while one is still alive.


• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs;
  he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.


• There is always some madness in love.
  But there is also always some reason in madness.


• You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.


• And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

e.e. cummings

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
  than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance


• unbeingdead isn't beingalive


• since feeling is first
  who pays any attention
  to the syntax of things
  will never wholly kiss you...

the MAN, charles bukowski

• i put out the lamp and get in bed
  beside her, she thinks i'm there
  mumbles a rosy gratitude
  as i stretch my legs
  to coffin length
  get in and swim away
  from frogs and fortunes.
                 -- excerpt from "i am dead but i know the dead are not like this"


• take a writer away from his typewriter
  and all you have left
  is
  the sickness
  which started him
  typing
  in the
  beginning.
                 -- excerpt from "about the PEN conference"

the others

• When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
  When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
  That's relativity.
                 ---Albert Einstein


• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that
  man never worshipped anything but himself.
                 ---Sir Richard Burton


• "Picture the sun as the origin of two intersecting
  6-dimensional hyperplanes from which we can
  deduce a certain transformational sequence which
  gives us the terminal velocity of a rubber duck ..."
                 ---unknown