Pretentious & Poetic Sentences, Vol. 13
(Pretentious sentences from various sources for muses that like to speak in grandiose sentences. Adjust phrasing where needed)
"The truth always sounds like lies to a sinner."
"There are few things that focus one solely on the present. Terror is one, grief another - but nothing washes the world away like the lips of another."
"You've got ice-cold water running through your veins."
"I have been placed on a train with a destination not of my choosing, and I have no means of stopping it."
"You only live once but, if you do it right, once is enough."
"Lions don't die of old age. Lions die in the jaws of younger lions, and you are the younger lion."
"Say what you're going to say, or prepare for eternal silence."
"When you love somebody, you trade souls with them. They get a piece of yours, and you get a piece of theirs."
"Blood can be the heaviest damn thing in the world."
"It's easy to kill when half of you is already dead."
"Attraction's an odd thing. It consumes you - stronger than hunger, or fear, or anything you've ever felt."
"You looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked right back."
"Can anyone ever really know another man's soul?"
"Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh."
"Drive your polluted soul back to the city where it belongs."
"A man can't hang himself if you don't give him any rope."
"Say it. Say the words my bones already know."
"Whatever lurks ahead of grievous abominations and disorder, you and me walk into it together like always."
"The promise of the divine is but an illusion. Nothing in the world is pure."
"I'm extending my hand to you. Why are you baring your teeth?"
"Death is everywhere. It follows us like a stray dog, waiting to devour us like scraps."
"The sins we commit in the past are the same ones we'll commit in the future."
"Every man has hell in his heart, some just more than others."
"You see the world in black and white, while I? I am forced to exist amongst the graduated grey."
"Cities are the sunsets of civilisation - monuments to an exhausted landscape."
"Hope's a dangerous thing. It tricks your mind into seeing this world in a way that won't ever come true."
"If grief is just love persisting, then let it persist."
"Do you know what's so beautiful about questions? It's that we don't have the answers."
"Living means learning to do what's necessary, and what's necessary can often feel like learning to swallow a razor blade."