PretentiousΒ & Poetic Sentences, Vol. 8
(PretentiousΒ sentences from various sources for muses that like to speak in grandioseΒ sentences. Adjust phrasing where needed)
"You could be magnificent."
"Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
"You would make a beautiful corpse."
"When all the facts fall short of believability, fantasy feels reassuringly solid."
"Every choice you make has a consequence in the future. One wrong choice and you lose."
"Sometimes fate deals us a strange hand."
"Do you know the difference between order and chaos?"
"Every story has a beginning, but no story truly has an end."
"Trauma scrambles the senses. It transforms even the most lucid mind into a labyrinth."
"Time is a flat circle and we are all stuck in it."
"Stories end gracefully. Everything else ends in shock and horror, falsely certain of tomorrow."
"We mortals are but shadows and dust."
"Every search for a hero must begin with something that every hero requires: a villain."
"I don't sleep. I just dream."
"A rotten tree trunk appears strong until the storm breaks it in two."
"The person who extends an open hand in friendship had better have a blade in a fist behind his back."
"A man without his word is no better than a beast."
"All the bright, precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back."
"Time is a flat circle. Everything we've ever done or will do, we're going to do over and over again."
"St Paul had to be blinded before he saw the light. I hope it doesn't take something so dramatic in your case."
"A spy can have a hundred names, a hundred faces, a hundred identities - but you only get one soul."
"To deny who you are is much more painful than confronting what you hate about yourself."
"Did you confuse reacting with feeling?"
"Any man can be a success, but it takes a madman to be great."
"We can never know in the present if the ripples created by an individual's actions will have a consequential event downstream."
"How will the world speak my name in years to come?"
"I'm going to do you the honour of letting you die superbly."
"To kill the snake, you have to cut off its head."
"We all want to be saved. Sometimes, it's just from ourselves."
"Allow me to dispel a few rumours so they don't fester into facts."
"The future is an equation with a thousand variables that keep changing."
"What we do in life echoes in eternity."
"You don't have to be a tyrant, but if you don't want to be consistently cruel, you have to be sufficiently brutal at least once to establish authority."
