M.attie

Verified author @M.attie, member from March 18, 2022

“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Lady Lazarus" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/lady.html <br class="br">Source: Ariel (1965)

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“It is good to be a cynic—it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world—we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

"Nietzscheism and Realism" from The Rainbow, Vol. I, No. 1 (October 1921); reprinted in "To Quebec and the Stars", and also in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 71
Non-Fiction
Source: Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

“Give me knowledge or give me death!”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer

As quoted in "An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Carey Horwitz, Library Journal, Apr. 15, 1973: 1131
Various interviews
Context: All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States—and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them… I just feel better when they're not around.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: Barfly

“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Capricorn

Source: Tropic of Capricorn

Charles Bukowski quote: “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

“It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[, July 5, 1922]”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises…”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars…. I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness….”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.”

H.P. Lovecraft book The Call of Cthulhu

Source: Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)