On integration

Thee ultimate aim of Pandrogeny was never merely physical. It was to be so integrated mentally that we would be able to find each other’s consciousness beyond thee body. And because consciousness is just a form of energy, we would be able to blend and truly becoum one.

- Genesis P-Orridge

Freedom

Freedom's just another word for one more way to get fucked.

- Dexter, Love American Style

Automaton

Automatic porn drug ritual.

- Pig Destroyer, The Bug

Victims

We are all victims of circumstance and biology.

- paraphrased from the film Side Effects

Oh, don't be so bloody melodramatic

I was in a fog
I didn't notice everything
Was coming all apart inside of me
There wasn't anyway for anyone to settle in
You made a slow disaster out of me
There's a radiant darkness upon us...

- The National, You Were A Kindness

Everyday

I still confide in you almost everyday,
even though you're not around,
how can that be in your solid state..?

- The Halo Benders, Virginia Reel Around The Fountain

Grace

Is there a powder to erase this?
Is it dissolvable and tasteless?
You can't imagine how I hate this.

- The National, Graceless

On wanting what you can't have

... and he wants another's eyes through which to see.

China Mieville - Iron Council

Alone

Found myself alone
alone above a raging sea
that stole the only girl I loved
and drowned her deep inside of me.

- The Cure, Just Like Heaven

It's gotta be that way

The sun is shining,
but it's raining down
it's gotta be that way
it's gotta be that way

The House Of Love - It's Gotta Be That Way 

Berlin

Berlin - a long garden party in the ruins of a baroque sepulchre.

- Iain M. Banks, The State Of The Art

Copenhagen

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is - physics concerns what we can say about nature.

- Niels Bohr

New

I feel so extraordinary,
something's got a hold on me,
I get this feeling I'm in motion,
a sudden sense of liberty...

 - New Order, True Faith

I just want to be

Fool enough to almost be it
and cool enough to not quite see it
and old enough to always feel this
always old, I'll always feel this

No more promise no more sorrow
no longer will I follow
can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
when I can, I will
try to understand
that when I can, I will...

- Smashing Pumpkins, Mayonaise

On happiness, again

WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU FEEL WARM AND CONTENT AND WISH THINGS WOULD STAY THAT WAY? said Death.
"I guess you'd call it happiness" said Harga.

- Terry Pratchett, Mort

A nice summation

You look like you're going to spend your life having one epiphany after another, always thinking you've finally figured out what's holding you back, and how you can finally be productive and creative and turn your life around. But nothing will ever change. That cycle of mediocrity isn't due to some obstacle. It's who you are. The thing standing in the way of your dreams, is that the person having them is you.

http://xkcd.com/1027/

On changing

And I,
I can't run away,
From myself,
Like yesterday.

And I,
I'll change my ways,
Someday,
Someday soon.

- Howling Bells, In The Woods

On the future

The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damned thing after another.

- Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time

On self hatred

Goddam the black night
with all its foul temptations
I've become what I always hated
when I was with you there

- Death Cab For Cutie, We Looked Like Giants

On loneliness

Until then I had always thought of loneliness as something negative - an absence of company, and, of course, something temporary... that day I has learned that it was much more. It was something which could press and oppress, could distort the ordinary, and play tricks with the mind. Something which lurked inimically all around, stretching the nerves and twanging them with alarms, never letting one forget that there was no one to help, no one to care. It showed one as an atom adrift in vastness, and it waited all the time its chance to frighten and frighten horribly - that was what loneliness was really trying to do; and that was what one must never let it do...

- John Wyndham, The Day Of The Triffids