Pretentiousย & Poetic Sentences, Vol. 9
(Pretentiousย sentences from various sources for muses that like to speak in grandioseย sentences. Adjust phrasing where needed)
"Work can only ever be a mistress. Mistresses are ravenous."
"Our scars can destroy us, even after the physical wounds have healed. But if we survive them, they can transform us."
"If indeed there is a soul, we must consider then that there is still time for redemption."
"It's my finding that journeys end when and where they want to."
"God has a far more disturbed sense of humour than even I could have imagined."
"Understanding our past determines actively our ability to understand the present."
"What the eyes sees, the mind believes."
"We could circle each other and growl, sleep with one eye open, but that thought wearies me."
"We are all bound for heaven eventually, are we not?"
"Nature doesn't recognise good and evil. Nature only recognises balance and imbalance."
"Sometimes, what we wake up can't be put back to sleep."
"The road back from madness is a struggle. Only the luckiest of people find their way more or less back to the world you live in."
"The warrior who lifts his arm for the killer blow leaves his heart exposed."
"Who am I to play god with other people's lives?"
"I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell."
"Because of what you did, what's left of your soul will melt your poisonous heart."
"The city is just a prairie that combs its hair and shaves its face."
"Nobody hates history. They hate their own histories."
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords."
"I used to be like you - driven by ideology and fear, with no love of what's beautiful in the world."
"I often wake up at night, frightened with the understanding that there are things man shouldn't know."
"They think I'm hiding in the shadows, but I am the shadows."
"I wish I could dredge from my soul one speck of remorse, but I can't, so I'll stick to the business at hand and try not to smile too broadly."
"From the evidence, man's wisdom must walk hand in hand with his idiocy."
"A cold heart is a dead heart."
"The question is, will you still want the same things when you have become a different animal altogether?"
"We are all expendable in the wake of creation."
"The potential for destruction in each of us is infinite."
"Where were you when I was still kind?"
"I want to be the un-wobbling pivot at the centre of an ever-revolving universe. I want to be still."
"Would you be killed in your sleep like an ailing pet?"
"There are no answers to questions you can't even conceive."
"In the face of pain, there are no heroes."
"If you tamper with what's wild, you're bound to get kicked."
"The greatest sins in human history have been committed in the name of love."
"I talk to my cigarettes. The most they listen is ten minutes."
"The man I was before, he was consumed by ambition - by hubris. He never cared about anyone; all he cared about was walking with the gods."
"Every action causes ripples - consequences both obvious and unforeseen."
"The night, I think, is darker than we can really say."
"If I'd known your true colours, I'd have named you Cain."
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