Thing Quotes (page 696)
![J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "There are some things that it is better to begin than to..."](/pic/288564/600x316/quotation-j-r-r-tolkien-there-are-some-things-that-it-is-better-to-begin.jpg)
The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they’re not alone, that they’re actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live.
Gerard Way
![Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a..."](/pic/288537/600x316/quotation-gilbert-k-chesterton-there-is-the-great-lesson-of-beauty-and.jpg)
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to...
Jim Morrison
![Oscar Wilde quote: "Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is..."](/pic/288479/600x316/quotation-oscar-wilde-art-is-the-only-serious-thing-in-the-world-and-the.jpg)
![Oscar Wilde quote: "If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you..."](/pic/288452/600x316/quotation-oscar-wilde-if-you-dont-get-everything-you-want-think-of-the.jpg)
This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women. In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality. Until the time came for this effort he would be Anthony Patch—not a portrait of a man but a distinct and dynamic personality, opinionated,...
F. Scott Fitzgerald