Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

…sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Bernard Williams

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Joel Spolsky

The world of programming is very just and very strictly ordered and a heck of a lot of people go into programming in the first place because they prefer to spend their time in a just, orderly place, a strict meritocracy where you can win any debate simply by being right.

Charles Bukowski

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

Joanna Field

Sometimes I find in my happiest moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Frank L. Stanton, This World

This world that we're a-livin in
Is mighty hard to beat
You get a thorn with every rose
But ain't the roses sweet!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done
what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, Hook

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.

Iris Murdoch

The absolute yearning of one human body for another one, and its indifference to substitutes, is one of life's major mysteries.

Aaron Hsu

Programming is just another name for the lost art of thinking.

Martin Buber

What happens during the unspoken dialogue between two people can never be changed by the things they say.

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Unknown

Missing you isn't the hardest part, knowing I once had you is what breaks my heart.

Cat Stevens

I always knew I would look back on the times I cried, and laugh; but I never thought I would look back on the times I laughed, and cry.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Blind Melon, Soul One

You said you left to find yourself But I never, no I never got the chance to say goodbye.

Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four AM knows all my secrets. Four AM is when my dreams die.

Alan Perlis

Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub-systems and so on ad infinitum---which is why we're always starting over.

Zhuangzi

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams

Love, we say, is life. But love without faith and hope is agonizing death.

Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps, Shakespeare in Love

I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No… not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that… over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play.

Pietro Aretino

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Kyle Schmid

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Alan Perlis

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that is has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.

Kahlil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Tiffanie DeBartolo, Dream for an Insomniac

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Carl Jung

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Alan Perlis

Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.