In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Formendacil]

"Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him." - Proverbs 26:12

Farethee well, first of my avatars....

I would not have replace thee, but as I was posting in this thread, I was struck with an idea for a new avatar.

Therefore, in a matter of minutes, thou wilt be no more.

[vanwalossien]

Had the same quote in my sig for a year now, perhaps time for a change, even though it was one of my favourite quotes, said by one of my more odd friends..
"I listen to the voices inside my head, so please speak up"

Had to go though, Douglas Adams is, after all, Douglas Adams. The genius. =)

[Amanaduial the archer]

And here I lay to rest possibly my shortest sig, duration-wise:

The whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume

But then, it was only meant to be a temporary, Easter style siggy. And along comes my new one, which is from the book I am currently reading: The Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams. Brilliant book, though maybe a little grisly. Snitter, the character who sings this little ditty, is a brilliant character: utterly mad, but all the better for it...

The whitecoats painted a mouse bright blue, and stuffed his ears with sneezing glue.
They shone a biscuit in his eye, to see what lay beyond the sky.
The mouse he knew not what he did, he blew them up with a saucepan lid...

[Firefoot]

Didn't last very long, but another random quote laid to rest:

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

My new sig is part of a series of twisted saws. And I mean twisted.

[Maeggaladiel]

Goodbye for now, Groucho.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

So I don't spam, and since I'm the last one to post, I'll post my newly-deceased sig in this old post. So here goes nada.

Well, you know, you can't make an omelette without... er... destroying a forest. Or something. -Black Mage, 8-Bit Theatre

Gotta love 8-Bit Theatre.

[Lhunardawen]

I think, therefore I get headaches.

I don't think anymore. My brain's on vacation.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

"Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end."

I kind of liked this quote by Legolas. Kind of...
Anyway, it's time to move on and make way for a new sig.

[Son of Númenor]

A God, a God their severance ruled;
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

These line in particular resonated deeply with me when I read Arnold's "To Marguerite", but I've decided that at last it is time to exchange it for a more contemporary (though no less pertinent to my own inclinations) quotation.

[Mithalwen]

"Oh, no no no, it was too cold always......
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning"

I love this one and I find it very moving ....but it has been over a week and I am in a less bleak mood so.....

[Evisse the Blue]

I realized I haven't laid my old sig to rest:

Imi elyë na vanessë Ambaron ya Qualmë nye i Lindir carnë.
Menelnya ontanë sinomë
A laven auta

It's Elvish (Quenya) for:

Sinussa maailman kauneus
Josta kuolema teki minusta taiteilijan
Oman taivaan tänne loin
Anna minun päästä pois

which is Finnish for:

In you is the beauty of the world, of which death made me an artist
My own heaven I created here
Let me get away

Hope I confused you all.
Lyrics by Nightwish, Quenya translation by yours truly. Someone said on this forum (apologies for not remembering exactly who at this moment!) that this song reminds one of LOTR, despite no obvious reference. I agree...

[HerenIstarion]

RIP

"Quand on veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'on existe"

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I'll let Mithalwen's Little Prince signature rest here. It's only right that it can lie next to its sibling.

Everything was revealed to her, I say, I say....

[Lush]

Here I lay down the wisdom of the late, great Tupac Shakur. May both this quote and he rest in peace.

And still I see no changes/Can't a brother get a little peace?/There's war on the streets and a war in the Middle East

[Mithalwen]

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.


I believe it but it is time for a change and since it isn't happening elsewhere I will change my sig

[Ainaserkewen]

Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei, Nu ma, nu ma iei,
nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei.

I'm putting this to rest for awhile....just until I'm done gloating over mopping the floor at Band Comp. this year...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I lay to rest the short-lived, but no less beloved, The Boondock Saints quote:

Now you will receive us. We do not ask for your poor, or for your hungry. We don’t want your tired and sick. It is your corrupt we claim...

But since I fell in love with The Pax Cecilia (google it, foo ) this winter, I've been waiting to use their lines for signatures. So now I have a piece of the segment that goes thus:

"i stole my inspiration from a lonely ghost road, someday this curse will catch up with me. and someday i will fit my memiors in the palm of your hand. meredith, meredith, someday you will fit my memiors in the palm of your hand, and they will accompany you as you give up hope. and meredith, all my life you'll be humming lullabies into my ear in such a disjointed and quivering melody, and on my deathbed you'll be screaming repentance to the rhythm of my slowing heartbeat. god, i have never known a thought so lovely."

[Lhunardawen]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Thank you, George Bernard Shaw. Now there's something to defend me when I'm being unreasonable. Oh, and thank you too, Gen. Mike Rodgers of Op-Center.

[Evisse the Blue]

I lay to rest:

"Nightfall
Quietly crept in and changed us all"
(Blind Guardian)

I can really see this song being played at the end of the world.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

.all my life you'll be humming lullabies into my ear in such a disjointed and quivering melody, and on my deathbed you'll be screaming repentance to the rhythm of my slowing heartbeat...

I retire you early... Fluorescence A.D. 1429: Burning the Body of Joan of Arc, you are still one of my favorites, even though your creators saw fit to saddle you with such a long name.
My new one is from the same band, but instead comes from the song MDCCLXXV. Or was it The Crux Candide? Crazy CD intertwines tracks almost flawlessly.

[Elennar Starfire]

RIP, Hollow Kingdom quote.

"Forks are absurd! They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice." ~Marak

My new one's Nightwish lyrics. Thankies, Evisse, it's all your fault.

[HerenIstarion]

It is no longer appropriate to be after impressing young women, so my former quote should be laid to rest from now on:

Poetry is like hermits - No point freezing your nadgers off while communing with the Infinite unless you could rely on a lot of impressionable young women to come along occasionally and say Gosh

It was fun, but now is over. We move to new horizons with Mark 10:8

[Evisse the Blue]

RIP:

Do I bathe in wonders, do I dwell in dreams, Have I been touched by spirits finding me when I'm asleep, The melody of moments keeps me awake at night, The eyes of storytellers following me secretly, My senses capture me
From the very beautiful song "Senses Capture' by Norwegian band Leaves Eyes.

I realized that for a while now I've only been quoting songs in my sigs, and keeping them a relatively short time.

Originally Posted by Elennar Starfire

RIP, Hollow Kingdom quote.



My new one's Nightwish lyrics. Thankies, Evisse, it's all your fault.

Hihi. Can't say how happy this makes me *hugs Elannar*

[Bêthberry]

Way past time to put this one to rest, even though no one has seen the link between it and Barrow Wight's avatar. Sometimes I am just too subtle.

Do you believe in U.F.O.'s, astral projections, mental telepathy, E.S.P., clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full-trance mediums,the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of ... Numenor?

New one on the way, I guess, when I find something appropriate.

[Ainaserkewen]

Here comes a candle to light you to bed and here comes the chopper to chop off your head...

I rather liked this quote, I wonder if anybody knows where it's from.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

...seventeen hours after the last sunrise seen, the trails of you evaporate into themselves; into the breaths we never took, into the night that never stopped waiting for dawn...

I'm extremely fond of this signature, and it will no doubt come back... but first I have a few others to get out of my system.

[piosenniel]

Here comes a candle to light you to bed and here comes the chopper to chop off your head...

It's from an old nursery rhyme and a children's game called Oranges and Lemons.

Fun to play and appeals to the more gruesome side of a child's personality.

~*~ Pio

[Ainaserkewen]

I found that out secondly after I'd heard the quote and only those words in two interesting places: The movie Closet Land and Orwell's 1984.

[Mithalwen]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Despite the praise ... I have been accused by someone of being too girly so ...

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

It's everywhere hiding the listener. Without it I could not live. Silence.


I came up with a more appropriate one...

[Lhunardawen]

From A.S. Exupery's The Little Prince...

I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

[Holbytlass]

"...who's got their claws in you, my friend,
into your heart I'll beat again." Crash (DMB)
Tol-in-Gauroth


This lyric from Dave Mathews Band, Crash I found to be quite fitting. Most obvious the 'claw part', as in wolves; the 'my friend' because I was innocent and concerned for other innocents.
The 'into your heart, I'll beat again' because I was the seer and after my death all would be looking back to all that I said and therefore I would 'live' again.

[Evisse the Blue]

"Golden apples from the grove fall down the tree/
And make all the Bacchants gather in Arcady/To dance on the Festival of the Tragedy/And eat the fruits of ecstasy"

Lyrics from (if you'll pardon the disagreeable repetition) 'From the Dionysian Days' - by Therion. I love this song. The world still has need of Arcady.

My new one is very tongue in cheek but I can't be held responsible for it, oh no. Blame Mr Ezra Pound. I intend to keep it for a longer while *crosses fingers*

[Lhunardawen]

I hate Math and anything that reminds me of it, so I'll get rid of this:

To learn, sometimes we must unlearn.

It's actually a lesson I learned to make my Math class less of a torture chamber than it actually is.

But now I'm beginning to think I should assign this to Mordor instead...

[Holbytlass]

The one who's barely there
Is the one to be 'ware
Tol-in-Gauroth III


When Shelob, Oddwen and I were the wolves and we went with the strategy of all of us being "quiet".

[Amanaduial the archer]

I lay to rest...

The whitecoats painted a mouse bright blue, and stuffed his ears with sneezing glue,
They shone a biscuit through his eye, to see what lay beyond the sky,
The mouse he knew not what he did, he blew them all up with a saucepan lid...

Wonderfully weird: a quote from Snitter, one of the main characters in Richard Adams' 'The Plague Dogs', one of my favourite books. I liked that siggy very much, but hey, time to move on...

[mark12_30]

Farewell to:

Indeed my friends, none of you have any weapon that could hurt me. Be merry! We meet again. --Gandalf

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Ah, enough with anagrams and WW games... for a while.

Join the Bandwagon!
dancing spawn of ungoliant - awful posting cannonading

It's time for something new.

[Elennar Starfire]

Never sigh for a better world, it's already composed, played, and told. Every thought the music I write, everything a wish for the night.

*sniffle* That song makes me cry...but now it's time for my revenge on Falky. She really did sing that! *points down at new siggy*

[Nuranar]

To be used no more (on this forum, at least):

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
~ Lord Peter Wimsey

But I'm not finished with Lord Peter yet.