shootsweb - Tumblr blog

shootsweb · 6 years

Text

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" sentence starters

❝ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ❞

❝ The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. ❞

❝ We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ❞

❝ I have grown to love secrecy. ❞

❝ Your cynicism is simply a pose. ❞

❝ You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. ❞

❝ Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. ❞

❝ I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ❞

❝ A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ❞

❝ Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain. ❞

❝ None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. ❞

❝ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ❞

❝ There is nothing that art cannot express. ❞

❝ The harmony of soul and body—how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. ❞

❝ My heart shall never be put under their microscope. ❞

❝ It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. ❞

❝ I feel that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.” ❞

❝ In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. ❞

❝ Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. ❞

❝ People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. ❞

❝ Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. ❞

❝ Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. ❞

❝ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. ❞

❝ Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ❞

❝ You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ❞

❝ Wherever you go, you charm the world. Will it always be so? ❞

❝ Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. ❞

❝ Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. ❞

❝ You like your art better than your friends. ❞

❝ I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. ❞

❝ Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. ❞

❝ Credit is the capital of a younger son, and one lives charmingly upon it. ❞

❝ Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ❞

❝ The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. ❞

❝ I can sympathize with everything except suffering. ❞

❝ Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different. ❞

❝ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. ❞

❝ You are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing. ❞

❝ I am always late on principle, the principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. ❞

❝ I adore it, but I am afraid of it. It makes me too romantic. ❞

❝ Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ❞

❝ Passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. ❞

❝ If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me. ❞

❝ When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ❞

❝ There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies. ❞

❝ I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ❞

❝ People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. ❞

❝ The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. ❞

❝ It often happens that when we think we were experimenting on others we are really experimenting on ourselves. ❞

❝ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ❞

❝ To be in love is to surpass one’s self. ❞

❝ Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. ❞

❝ Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; springtime for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies. ❞

❝ I shudder at the thought of being free. ❞

❝ I know you would never harm anyone I love, would you? ❞

❝ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ❞

❝ Of course, it is sudden—all really delightful things are. ❞

❝ The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ❞

❝ Unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality. ❞

❝ You are much better than you pretend to be. ❞

❝ I cannot understand how anyone can wish to shame the thing he loves. ❞

❝ When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy. ❞

❝ The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich. ❞

❝ Being adored is a nuisance. ❞

❝ You are dreadful! I don’t know why I like you so much. ❞

❝ You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. ❞

❝ Love is a more wonderful thing than art. ❞

❝ There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ❞

❝ The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. ❞

❝ I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real. ❞

❝ You taught me what reality really is. ❞

❝ You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. ❞

❝ I have grown sick of shadows. ❞

❝ You don’t know what you were to me, once. ❞

❝ You have spoiled the romance of my life. ❞

❝ Without your art, you are nothing. ❞

❝ There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. ❞

❝ There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. ❞

❝ I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous. ❞

❝ You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. ❞

❝ Things like that make a man fashionable in Paris. But in London people are so prejudiced. ❞

❝ One should never make one’s début with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age. ❞

❝ How extraordinarily dramatic life is! ❞

❝ I don’t think I am heartless. Do you? ❞

❝ The moment she touched actual life, she marred it, and it marred her. ❞

❝ Life has everything in store for you, ❞

❝ We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. ❞

❝ If one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things. ❞

❝ You must not tell me about things. What is done is done. What is past is past. ❞

❝ I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. ❞

❝ You talk as if you had no heart, no pity in you. ❞

❝ if I told you, you might like me less than you do, and you would certainly laugh at me. I could not bear your doing either of those two things. ❞

❝ Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation. ❞

❝ You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. ❞

❝ Whatever I have done that is good, I owe to you. ❞

❝ There is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own. ❞

❝ Perhaps one should never put one’s worship into words. ❞

❝ There seems to be something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance. ❞

❝ It has a corruption of its own, worse than the corruption of death itself—something that would breed horrors and yet would never die. ❞

❝ The past can always be annihilated. ❞

❝ How exquisite life had once been! How gorgeous in its pomp and decoration! Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful. ❞

❝ Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. ❞

❝ I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else. ❞

❝ I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty. ❞

❝ You don’t want people to talk of you as something vile and degraded. ❞

❝ You must not say things like that. They are horrible, and they don’t mean anything. ❞

❝ You have had more to do with my life than you think. ❞

❝ Each of us has heaven and hell in him. ❞

❝ Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ❞

❝ Keep your horrible secrets to yourself. They don’t interest me any more. ❞

❝ What is it to me what devil’s work you are up to? ❞

❝ I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you. ❞

❝ The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. ❞

❝ I am not at all surprised that the world says that you are extremely wicked. ❞

❝ It is perfectly monstrous, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true. ❞

❝ Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. ❞

❝ Everybody I know says you are very wicked. ❞

❝ I like men who have a future and women who have a past. ❞

❝ Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. ❞

❝ He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely overeducated. He is a very modern type. ❞

❝ What do you want? Money? Here it is. Don’t ever talk to me again. ❞

❝ Each man lives his own life and pays his own price for living it. ❞

❝ The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. ❞

❝ I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand, no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly. ❞

❝ To be popular one must be a mediocrity. ❞

❝ We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. ❞

❝ I wish I could love, but I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. ❞

❝ My own personality has become a burden to me. ❞

❝ Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me. ❞

❝ The world has always worshipped you. It always will worship you. ❞

❝ Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ❞

❝ The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all. ❞

❝ The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. ❞

#◜ ✕ ◞ ➤ from youtube. ( prompts. )#◜ ✕ ◞ ➤ in wait. ( queue. )

5K notes · View notes

shootsweb · 6 years

Text

OLYMPIAN AESTHETICS.

tagged by : @dctrplmr tagging : become... a Steal.

APHRODITE: laughter-loving. sweet smiles. dressed in silk and satin. flower in their hair. sees the world as a runway. unapologetically sexual. the sea washing their ankles. in love with love. stirrer of passion. cunning concealed by painted lips. secret daggers. doves. revolution in their kiss. delighting in the waves. flirtatious winks. strolling along the beach. staring wistfully from a balcony. this is how to be a heartbreaker. wants to be adored. gets turned on by danger.

APOLLO: glitz and glamour. art galleries. turning the volume up.being made of gold. neatly-organized music sheets. notebooks filled with poetry. bathing in the sunlight. the powerful urge to create. collecting vinyl records. beautiful cover of wonderwall. playing multiple instruments. tasting like sunshine. healing touch. speaking in prophecies. smile mingled with wrath. shunning lies. sporting shades. hanging out at music festivals with their friends. sleeps naked. arrow to the heart. paint brushes. probably has a tinder account.

ARES: armed for battle. wants to raise a dog with their significant other. soft spot for children. gives piggyback rides. scarred body. blood on their hands and face. willing to fight the world for the ones they love. fights against injustice. warm hugs. well-worn combat boots. boxing gloves. bandages wrapped around bruised knuckles. fist raised in protest. ignites revolutions. fear is a prison. more sensitive than what their tough shell would have you think. exhausted. damaged goods. force to be reckoned with. red roses. curses under their breath.

ARTEMIS: keen sense of a hunter. freckles like constellations on their skin. piercing eyes. disheveled braid. moonlight peeking through the shadows. the calm of the forest at night. lying on the grass and staring at the stars. mother doe and her fawn. protecting their kin. the moon shimmering on a still lake. quiver full of arrows resting against the bark of a tree. running with wolves. bonding while circled around a campfire. not being much of a people person. arrow hitting a target. popping egos. patience on 3%. touches heaven and returns howling.

ATHENA: discerning gaze. unreadable face. quiet museums. owl perched on their finger. armor that intimidates. eye for architecture. plays the sims for the sole purpose of building houses. studied the blade while everyone else was busy getting laid. big fan of logic. loves brain teasers, ancient buildings. sweaters in neutrals and cool colors. hair done up. can kill you with their brain. heads to the library often to research. sharpened pencils. abs that can cut steel. stoic statues. pottery classes.

DEMETER: soil-covered hands.smile that can bloom flowers. skin loved by the sun. being the mom-friend. can lift you and your friends. flowers kept in the pockets of overalls. takes pride in their beautiful garden. speaks to their plants. leaves rustling in the wind. stalks of wheat. picking fruit. greenhouses. heart as strong as a mountain. values simplicity. daisies dotted across a collarbone. curls crowned with flowers. folded pile of sweaters in warm hues. pulling out fresh- baked bread out of the oven and the smell wafting through the air.

DIONYSUS: drunk shitposter. on their sixth glass of wine before you’ve even finished your second. seductive smirks. untamed curls. rich fabrics on dark skin. sleek-furred panthers. theater masks. stage productions. receiving a standing ovation. rose caught between their teeth. being the baby of the bunch. wild parties that last from sundown to sunup. creeping vines. inspiring loyalty. grand opera houses. masquerade balls. rolls of film. shattered chandeliers with broken glass scattered across the wine-spilled floor. pouring champagne into flutes. lives for the applause.

HEPHAESTUS: the calloused hands of someone who knows labor. sweaty brow. flame burning in their eyes. inventive mind. broad shoulders. steampunk goggles. nuts and bolts stored away in little boxes. ashes. striking a match. blueprints for future projects. fixing up a busted up car and giving it cool upgrades. wrestles with bitterness.work boots have seen better years. wrinkled plaid shirts. iron melted in blazing fire. huge jackets. crafting masterpieces. greased- stained overalls. fascination with robotics. pain is fuel. stack of weaponry. even their muscles have muscles.

HERA: resting bitch face. dressed to the nines. cows grazing on a pasture. cool rain. loving and hating fiercely. hand clutching a string of pearls. large chandelier with glittering crystals. plays the sims for the sole purpose of killing off their sims. romance to realism. pictures of the sky while flying on a plane. files that under fuck it. downs glasses of wine as they relax with a scented bubble bath and netflix. like their selfie or you’re grounded. knows 57 convenient ways to murder a man. dark eyes that penetrate your soul. marble and gold.

HERMES: devil-may-care smile. always up-to-date on the latest technology. will steal your french fries. does it for the vine. shitposter. puts googly eyes on everything. meme hoarder. long drives on the highway. ma and pop diners. spontaneous road trips. folded maps. fingers dancing across the keyboard of a laptop. shooting hoops on the basketball court. chatting up strangers as you all journey to your own destinations. goes jogging in the morning. mixes redbull with coffee. menace on april fool’s. hoodies and sneakers.

POSEIDON: storm with skin. colorful coral reefs. waves crashing against the shore. stroking the soft fur of a cat. their heart pounding as their horse’s gentle trot speeds into a gallop. tousled locks. clothes smeared with paint. owns several sketchbooks yet always yearns to own more. leather jackets. fondness for diy projects. handwriting that flows across the page. nimble fingers playing the strings of a violin. velvety singing voice that haunts your dreams. mood as ever-changing as the sea. the roar of a motorcycle. compass with a spinning arrow.

ZEUS: thunder in their heart. running on coffee. flash of lightning. natural charisma. eloquence. badass in a nice suit. aficionado of history. force of nature. lenny face. nightmare-filled nights. proud arm around their lover’s waist. high-rise buildings. planes soaring through a cloudless sky. technician on the piano. maintains order. strong handshake. juggling multiple events on their busy schedule with ease. expensive watch.

#headcanon tag tbt.#long post /

0 notes

shootsweb · 6 years

Text

✰ — — — BUZZFEED UNSOLVED SENTENCE STARTERS

‘ do you think we’re gonna die here tonight? ’ ‘ it’s horrifying, chilling… just over all not good. ’ ‘ should we just get this over with? ’ ‘ he’s a fucking criminal. ’ ‘ sharing is caring? meh, go fuck yourself. ’ ‘ oh god, um… oh my god, i fucking hate this. ’ ‘ stop banging on the door, you dick. ’ ‘ what. the fuck. is wrong with you. ’ ‘ i gotta be honest, this doesn’t really compel me very much. ’ ‘ that was a joke that i made and then it formed your opinion on it. ’ ‘ flip that switch. do you think that’s the murder switch? ’ ‘ this is embarrassing. this is embarrassing for you, i think. ’ ‘ no one’s ghost-proof. ’ ‘ i’m ghost-proof. ’ ‘ you’re not ghost-proof. you’re just an idiot who refuses to see proof. ’ ‘ i’m ghost-proof, baby! ’ ‘ that sounded like will smith! ’ ‘ is will smith dead? has anyone checked the news?! ’ ‘ the problem is if there’s something that attacks us down here, i’m going to hit my head on the ceiling and my skull will smash. ’ ‘ alright, buddy. keep your wits about ya. ’ ‘ let’s get the fuck out of here. ’ ‘ i kind of just looked into places that would make me wanna die and i think this checks that box. ’ ‘ did i just blind you? good, good, good. it’ll give you the vision. ’ ‘ take a drink! ’ ‘ i’m gonna get you all tanked. ’ ‘ what do you expect? what insight are you trying to gather from here? ’ ‘ maybe the noise is a little snake. can you imagine a little snake wrapped around a little pickaxe with a little hat on? ’ ‘ i’m not trying to do that whole dismissive thing, but… i’m dismissing it. ’ ‘ alright. alright, man. you just gotta chill. ’ ‘ i thought ‘glory hole’ used to mean something very innocuous, though. ’ ‘ it’s where the men fucked the earth hoping to impregnate it with gold. ’ ‘ a bug flew up my nose. ’ ‘ i think i’ve swallowed about six tablespoons of bugs at this point. ’ ‘ it’s so silent aside from the bugs in my ears. ’ ‘ a bat flew right behind you just now. ’ ‘ that bat was straight-up going for your ass… it was an ass bat. ’ ‘ dude, i’m so nervous. ’ ‘ how can you be nervous with a beautiful sunset like that? ’ ‘ there’s some pretty shitty things that have happened to people around here. ’ ‘ can you even look at least a little bit worried? ’ ‘ yeah, i’m fucking nervous, man. i feel like i’m gonna vomit. ’ ‘ we’re all assholes here. ’ ‘ i don’t know why i phrased it ‘lucky for us.’ i think i was feeling brave when i wrote this. ’ ‘ yeah, this isn’t lucky for you at all. ’ ‘ i’m gonna try and avoid saying ‘demon’ as much as i can. ’ ‘ i’m not gonna let you goad me into this, i know what you’re trying to do. ’ ‘ shut up. we’re moving on. ’ ‘ you know what? i’m not trying to scare you, but… i got a bad feeling about this one. ’ ‘ why are you unbuttoning your pants? we’re in public right now. ’ ‘ oh… you’ve out-dumbed yourself. ’ ‘ you know, i thought this was gonna be funny, but now i’m actually happy that i have it. ’ ‘ i’m a whole other coin. just like a chill ass wheat-back penny. ’ ‘ i’m doing it for the betterment of the science. ’ ‘ any demons here? you got any demons out tonight? any horn-y boys or whatever they are. ’ ‘ you may not like this… i’m gonna try to agitate it. ’ ‘ you do what you gotta do and i’ll do what i gotta do. ’ ‘ i’m just gonna be as crude as possible here. ’ ‘ no, no, no. just right out of the gate. why build up? ’ ‘ if you don’t believe then there’s nothing for you to be afraid of, right? ’ ‘ you can be is big of a prick as you want, but i’m staying over here. ’ ‘ if you want me off this bridge, you’re gonna have to kill me. ’ ‘ nope! don’t loop me into your shit! ’ ‘ stop looping me. i hate when you do this to me in demon places. ’ ‘ i’m not part of his little charade. ’ ‘ children will come here and tell tales about me. ’ ‘ shut the fuck up – i’m gonna murder you. ’ ‘ oh what a load of horse shit. ’ ‘ oh, skip the theatrics and just go into it. ’ ‘ if you want me off this bridge, you’re gonna have to throw me off. ’ ‘ you gotta admit, that is an effective technique. ’ ‘ no, it’s not an effective technique. it’s a way to get killed. ’ ‘ that’s not how you get them, shut up. ’ ‘ when’s the last time you ever walked into the dark woods? ’ ‘ this is so much scarier than hunting fucking sasquatch. ’ ‘ people usually feel overcome with emotion in here, like a violent emotion. ’ ‘ give me a heads up if you start to feel murderous. i would appreciate that. ’ ‘ by the way, these woods are also scary because of the people that might be in there. ’ ‘ i mean, people are greater threats than demons or ghouls. ’ ‘ i can’t fight, you can’t fight. ’ ‘ you’re like one of those carwash floaty things that are out front just wiggling around. ’ ‘ anyone doing up to no good out here? ’ ‘ one of these times we’re gonna die. ’ ‘ oh shit! there’s something over there. i don’t know what it is, but the bushes are moving. ’ ‘ i just heard a scream. ’ ‘ well, if we just make it seem like we’re in on it, like… we’re here for the cult stuff. ’ ‘ we’re here for the cult stuff. we saw the ad on craigslist. ’ ‘ it feels weird to even joke. i’m so fucking scared right now. ’ ‘ oh sure they’d be hiding in the bushes. they’re cultists. ’ ‘ i keep collecting spiderwebs on my face and now i’m just sort of immune to them. i’m just letting them accumulate. ’ ‘ well, you are just a giant stick walking around. ’ ‘ oh, this looks fun… an odd collection of branches. looks like a witch lair or something. ’ ‘ hello? you can’t be doing occult stuff like this. it’s a weeknight. ’ ‘ dude, wait. you’re fucking crazy. ’ ‘ you need to chill. you need to chill out. ’ ‘ hey man, it’s just a plant. ’ ‘ we kicked goatman off the bridge, it’s ours now. ’ ‘ goatman, are you out here in the woo– well, he’s out here in the woods ‘cause he’s not tending to his bridge. ’ ‘ clearly. that’s why finders keepers and all that. ’ ‘ hey, if there’s cultists out there… i gotta let you know, my pal has a water gun. ’ ‘ i don’t like this, i don’t like this one bit. ’ ‘ we are hearing noise from all sides at this point. it’s very blair witch. ’ ‘ yeah, let’s leave. ’ ‘ the name ‘steve’ doesn’t really strike fear into the heart. ’ ‘ i’ll go along with this. fun gimmick. ’ ‘ well demons, it’s been fun. ’ ‘ as we snuff these candles so too do we snuff you from this mortal world, you fucking wimp. ’ ‘ this bridge is officially mine. they’ll tell legends of me here. ’ ‘ oh god, i feel like i’ve gone to the dark side. ’ ‘ just gloat a little bit. this is a win for you. ’

#◜ ✕ ◞ ➤ from youtube. ( prompts. )#◜ ✕ ◞ ➤ in wait. ( queue. )

4K notes · View notes

shootsweb · 6 years

Text

✰ — — — BUZZFEED UNSOLVED SENTENCE STARTERS

#◜ ✕ ◞ ➤ from youtube. ( prompts. )#the ghoul bois...#◜ ✕ ◞ ➤ in wait. ( queue. )