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What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Does a poem count? Ozymandias has stuck with me forever.

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

We'll start a new ancient Egypt, with hookers and booze.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I thought this was some quote from like, Iliad times. Nope, this is Percy Bysshe Shelley. That guy was pretty awesome

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My favourite poem; I was just thinking about reading it again, and here we are. Thanks!