Virtual Epitaph

The Virtual Epitaph is something I started on Tumblr a few years ago. It's a catalogue of quotes from different places and a few originals I enjoy a lot - song lyrics, poetry, quotes from Youtube videos, that sort of thing. This isn't all of them, since I didn't like how certain ones showed up with the formatting, but you can view all of the quotes off-Tumblr on this Google Doc (which also includes some extra detail and actual citations as well).

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The way my brain works is that it doesn’t - Drew Gooden
We become the god whom we eat - Donald Duclow
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind - Virgil
I hear your questions constantly, they come to me in my dreams like a prophet receiving visions from an angry god - Brian David Gilbert
Be patient, my heart: for you have endured things worse than this before - The Odyssey
Ghosts are more tolerable than the void created by death - Kyle Hill
Killing must feel good to God, too— he does it all the time - NBC Hannibal, S1E2, 41:50
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it - Mark Twain
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man - Patrick Rothfuss

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Lyrics

Nobody’s safe and we’re all omnivores - Abdominal Snowman (Big Business)
For the blood on which we dine / justified in the name of the holy and the divine - Hand That Feeds (Nine Inch Nails)
May you choke on your own masochistic sermons and be ground beneath the heels of conformity - Fleurs de Mal (Thou)
Cheat me out of living my life? / I exercise my right to die - Pleura (KGATLW)
I can hear hell’s kitchen and they’re singing hymns - Straws in the Wind (KGATLW)
I wrote on a tombstone / “in my house there is no God” - Zitti e Buoni (Måneskin)
There is whiskey in the water and there is death upon the vine / and there is grace within forgiveness but it’s so hard for me to find - Black Sun (Death Cab for Cutie)
Dig through the graveyard / rub the bones against my face / it gets real nice around the graveyard / once you’ve acquired the taste - Unicorn Tolerance (The Mountain Goats)

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Other Languages

Timor mortis conturbat me - "Fear of death disturbs me” (Latin)
Extremum vitae spiritum edere - "Give up the ghost" (Latin)
Fui quod es, eris quod sum - "I was what you are, you will be what I am" (Latin)

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From my Friends

you’re fucked up. skip therapy go to hell - Moss
you are not an animal. you are not alive. why are you learning to make new sounds. - Dream
im throwing wet noodles at a wall here and seeing what sticks - Nico
wow. fucked. what am i to you. meat to shred - Pi
i don’t know what procedure you need done to repair you but i hope you get it soon - Dream

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Originals

oh to bite a battery again
i promise you the lights are on because someone’s home
im gonna convert myself into merely a concept
everything’s a carcinogen if your body sucks enough
you are at the zoo and i am the animal
i only have six and a half worms in my brain. technically seven, given how worms work
my home is not a sanctuary it is where you go to die
emergency came up the skeleton’s alive

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Uncited/Unsourced

humans are not rational - we are, i believe the anthropological term is, fucking morons
two things in life are certain: death and furries. and i’m not sure about death
are you about three large footsteps away from the grave? need to kill time before you go ca-thunk in a casket? might i suggest learning how to talk about video games?
never stop running, don’t look back. even if you hurt someone, there’s nothing there for you
everyone in the baltimore state hospital for the criminally insane wishes to know me carnally
my personality type is provolone
life is hard. then you die. then they throw dirt in your face. then the worms eat you. be grateful if it happens in that order.
you should not expect my devotion to be anything but violent
the ghosts that inhabit this place are more alive than you’ll ever be
from my rotting body, flowers shall grow and i am in them and that is eternity