[stabbymcstab]

Don't remember a thread being made on this topic, and I think it would be fun to discuss. What is the most meaningful sentence/lyric/quote you have heard? You can choose to explain what you interpret the meaning as, or you could just leave it open for interpretation. It can be about anything, but extra points for 'meaning of existence' type quotes, remember to reference so people can delve deeper if they wish.

First one I can think of is:

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to life an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here - Tool, Right in Two, 10,000 Days.

[Rob]

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do than by the ones
you did do."

-Mark Twain

[Ox]

"You can stand under my umbrella-ella-ella-eh-eh"

- William Shakespeare.

[spaj]

"The difference between stupidity and ignorance is that you can teach an ignorant person."

- Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood

[Rsdx]

"Don't remember"

-Stabbymcstab

[Kenneh]

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

-Jules, quoting Ezekiel 25:17, from Pulp Fiction.

[Ox]

Personally, although I am in no way religious, I really like the 23rd Psalm:

"The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name' sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever."

I find it reassuring and comforting and I don't even believe in God.

[CharlieH]

"And when he gets to Heaven,
Saint Peter he will tell,
One more soldier Reporting, Sir
I've served my term in hell"

It's on MOH: Frontline, right before the Normandy beach storming. I can't remember who it is by though. Wyatt might know.

[Apple Juice]

"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up"
- Magizine I read

"Being Sorry is just an excuse to do it again"
- Someone from work who got it from someone else

[Zumbunny]

"anyone who clings to the historically untrue and throughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything i would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon and the duke of wellington and let them fight it out. The ghost of Hitler can referee. Violence and naked force have solved more issues in history than any other factor. The contrary is wishful thinking at it's best."

i dont' remember who it is by but i love the quote.

[Zumbunny]

Squirrel who runs up woman's leg will not find nuts.
Man with hole in pocket feels cocky all day.
Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone.
You have one advantage over me, you can kiss my ass and I can't.
life isnt a garden so stop being a hoe.
when ya got em' by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
Don't think of yourself as an ugly person, just a beautiful monkey.

[Mr Anorexia]

"Under moments of stress, you forget so easily the lies, the truth and the pain."

-Nick Drake

[Spastic]

"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."
- Alan Watts

[ne3]

"No human being is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

-Nfi

[Beefynick]

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

- Voltaire

[Miss Freeze]

"Your past shapes who you are. Forget it and you lose yourself."'

-some person

[The Muffin Man]

"War is hell"

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"-Ghandi

"do not trouble yourself. it is human nature to fail time and time again, however, it is also in our nature to rise above and conquer such failures"-IDK

[Tyler_Legrand]

"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put" - Winston Churchill

[Quadros]

'Only the dead have seen the end of war'

-Plato (Yeah I read Plato because I'm clever as fuck!!! I didn't get that from the start of Black Hawk Down or anything!)

[BadAnkle]

Originally Posted by Rob

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do than by the ones
you did do."

-Mark Twain

The first quote that popped into my head echoes the same sentiment, albeit with a slightly different attitude:

"Well son, the funny thing about regret is,
it's better to regret something you have done,
than to regret something you haven't done.
And by the way, if you see your mom this weekend,
be sure and tell her, SATAN, SATAN, SATAN!!!"

-Butthole Surfers, from the song Sweat Loaf

[teh_kyle00]

"20 years from now, your hairstyle, clothes, friends you had won't matter. What matters is what you learned and how used it." - My teacher, Mrs. Evans (Algebra) from some poster.

[teh_kyle00]

I also like this Sum 41 quote from "Still Waiting"

"What have we done
We're in a war that cant be won
This cant be real
I don't know what to feel

So am I still waiting
For this world to stop hating
Can't find a good reason
Can't find hope to believe in"

[Ox]

I had a collection of lyrics and quotes that I liked. Here's a selection of the more meaningful ones:

"A second chance means nothing, if nothing's learned from past mistakes."
- The Movielife, Jamestown


"Live right now, yeah just be yourself. it doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else."
- Jimmy Eat World, The Middle


"I won't waste my time fitting in, 'cos I don't think contrast is a sin."
- Millencolin, Penguins and Polar Bears


"See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library."

"Yeah, but I will have a degree and you'll be servin' my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip."

"That may be, but at least I won't be unoriginal."
- Matt Damon (who'd have thought it?!), Good Will Hunting

[ArKaiN]

Quoting emo shit like Sum 41 in here ought to get you permabanned.
Anyway.

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." - Richard Dawkins

"If a man ever understood how frail his life is, he would spend his life screaming" - Friedrich Nietzsche

[Sublyminal]

"On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion"

"Does Marceles Wallice look like a bitch?" - Socrates

[Mr. Crow]

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." - Thomas Paine

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." - Thomas Paine

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." - Horace Mann

[Scoped]

"I'll be sober in the morning, but you my dear will be ugly the rest of your life" - Churchill

[Oofie]

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde


There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde


I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
- Woody Allen

[Quadros]

Originally Posted by ArKaiN

Quoting emo shit like Sum 41 in here ought to get you permabanned.

What, emo being something other than gangster rap? Sum 41 are about as emo as smiling in pictures. But they're not quotable. Shitty chick flicks no guy should ever be forced to watch however, can be. For example;

'Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood!'
-Larry, Closer.

[KilTehEmos911]

"What do you mean, 'God doesn't have a sense of humor'!? God made the French!"

also, this thread is tagged as serious. I'm surprised that an Explosm forum even HAS a serious tag.

[ArKaiN]

Not all love stories are chick flicks. Closer's actually pretty quotable, and pretty damn good.
"Anna: Why is the sex so important?
Larry: Because I'm a fucking caveman!"

Sum 41:
"If nothing could ever be this real (be this real)
A life unsatisfied that I could never feel(I could never feel)
(Some say)This futures not so bright
Some can't make the sacrifice
It's much more than just black and white
And I won't fall"
It's emo, dude. Give up.

[almightybob]

"Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?"
"...No..."
"Well then you haven't seen everything. And neither have we." - Team America

It's sad to think of all the things we'll never have time to experience before we die. Like watching someone eat their own head.

[KilTehEmos911]

The Princess Bride was technically a love story, but it had swordfighting, torture methods employed by albino midgits, and a dude with 6 fingers on 1 hand. And also wierd flesh eating eel things that screech a lot. That movie ROCKED. And the priest had a crazy lisp. I laughed.

"Mawwiage is a vwery howly cewemoney."

[Demoir]

"What the fuck is this shit?"

-John Travolta (forum user)

[KilTehEmos911]

"I will kill your fucking nipples off" - A Cyanide and Happiness comic
I'm pretty sure Kris or Dave made it...

[Ox]

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
- Woody Allen.

[Mirrorman]

"My momma always used to say, life is like a box 'o chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."
-Forrest Gump

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

[Quadros]

That's a song about the way politics is going in North America, and the need for radical change. It's entirely un-emo. In an attempt to rescue man points from the dabcle of my last quote:

'Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.'

-Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

[almightybob]

If it's man points you need, look no further than Fight Club.

[meTalmessiah]

"Death is like sex in high school. If you knew how many times you missed it, you'd be terrified."

"Better to die quick, fighting on your feet then to live forever, begging on your knees." - Lamb of God

"This is SPARTAAAAA!" -Leonidas