Jerry Lee Lewis Quotes

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

In that way lies madness.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

Bombs are good. I love bombs."--Iggy

The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind's capacity to make things worse. No matter how bad it gets, we're all happy to screw each other over. It's enough to make me wonder if we should have let the zombies win.

He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Destroy yourself, if you don't know!

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

Lady, running down to the riptide. Taken away to the dark side.