Official Lugubrious Quotations Thread!

“At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.”

Mike Tyson, June 2005

(http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050627ta_talk_remnick)

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do!"

Oscar Wilde's last words.

eat his children or something.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

-Eugene Ionesco

...

"Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

This is when I'd cry, because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion. It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die."

from Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

"In the world I see - you are stalking elk in the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You will wear hard leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You will climb wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see people laying strips of vennison on the empty carpool lane of some abandoned superhighway."

Just check out the latest GOP talking points.

:headbang:
rocknation

"But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?"

:)

Why aren't you plunking your bass?

there's a cautionary theme operating here. Hmmm. This is what happened when he bought the Ovation acoustic guitar ( shades of Joan Armatrading)... which I seldom play.

Also, my BA is in English Lit., etc. and I seldom see anyone mention Notes From Underground. I'm a sucker for Doestoevsky.

and I'm a sucker for Yeats.

What's your drum kit like?

an anti-lugubrious one and another supporting Irish dread? (one could argue whether that is actually lugubrious.)

Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

and the classic,

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

on edit... I have a black Pearl drum set, circa... late 80s -early 90s.

"Selected Poems," I see.

Happy birthday again. Enjoy yourself and see you soon.

but I am going to have a look before bed. Thanks and nice swapping quotes with ya!

That's why yours isn't quite as battered.

you shouldn't have said so, then I would have assumed it was battered from your endless perusal of it, thus causing me to think you a great Yeats scholar!

:silly:

through my copy and laughed out loud when he came across an annotation I had made - a pen line from the word "Magi" to a margin where I had helpfully written "wise men."

I felt pretty country at that moment.

and all the original languages? ;)

One of my favorite things growing up was the giant dictionary my parents had/ still have on a big stand. (I was and still am a word fanatic). We keep the giant dictionary under the bed in our house, haven't gotten a stand as yet.

A good dictionary is a life-enhancer beyond measure.

For be comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
from a world more full of weeping than you can understand.

:hi:

there is something about him that is so wonderful. I saw his play cycle ( Cucullen? sp? )last year at an Irish org. I belong to, it was fascinating with beautifully ornate language.

8 All things are wearisome;
more than one can express;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
or the ear filled with hearing.

9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
"See, this is new"?
It has already been,
in the ages before us.

11 The people of long ago are not remembered,
nor will there be any remembrance
of people yet to come
by those who come after them.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

there are a few folks tonight who are making us fire up the dictionary to reassess meaning of words we assumed we knew!

here is some Yeats, "A shudder in the loins engenders there the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead." ;)

"That's right, just remember - there is a BIG difference between kneeling down and bending over." - from the song Heavenly Bank Account

"if you can't face up to it then don't put your face up to it" http://www.jimmycarlblack.com

~Hector Berlioz



"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

~Albert Einstein

qualify as lugubrious. A few of the quotes are probably just what some would call "realist," though others would mistake that for "cynical."

And going into the guest room to get some unfolded clean clothes this morning, I recalled when a chronically depressed fellow I know came to visit for some cheering up. I had forgotten that I had been reading Cioran's On the Heights of Despair in that room earlier in the week and that I had left it in there - the only book in the room.

My friend spent a few hours reading it his first night here while my darling bride and I slept happily in the next room. His reading hindered the cheering he had come for.

Really, though. Reading some of those authors just cheers me the fuck up. As Nietzsche and others have pointed out, having the shit stripped off of things can be a liberation and a starting point.

Part of you wants to smack the guy and say, "get over it!" and part of you knows he's right about everything.

but the slap'n stuff applies in spades as well :rofl:

(to paraphrase some Jungians) is actually the way back out.

actually when we looked up lugubrious for pronunciation and clarification purposes, I could hear Bob Dylan saying it,

lyoo- gyoooo- breee- ussss :rofl:

so much for the seriousness of life!

and also, a quote from a college friend of mine, Art, "Don't be an existentialist, you'll ruin your twenties!"

I'll stop now. :)

is a gold mine for lugubrious quotes:

All the leaders of groups tend to be frauds. If they were not, it
would be impossible for them to retain the allegiance of their dupes...

Another shining star of glorious, fucked up old Baltimore.

Thanks.

A thread-locker if ever there were one.

Thanks for sharing.

That makes my morning.

on edit: now I know why Dali always claimed that he was going to eat Gala when she died.

one smiling swag @ a time :applause: :kick: :patriot:

ps, are you ready sweets, for 'aeon flux the movie' http://www.aeonflux.com i'm already there :popcorn:

pps, "eat Gala when she died" = theirs was a love supreme :thumbsup:

Only got a glimpse of that - enticing, whatever it is. I feel quite out of it.

Will investigate it thoroughly once the portfolio uploads are done.

Many thanks.

at your leisure work it round to the trailer, that's where the proof of that particular pudding is :popcorn: