Ink Quotes

“These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(...)You turn to them for answers and salvation. (...) You rely more upon them than upon yourselves. This makes you weak and stupid. You trust in words. Drops of ink. Do you ever stop to think of who put them there? Or why? No. You simply accept their words without question. And what if those words speak falsely, as they often do? This is dangerous.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.”
― Tawny Lara

“Stars ink your fingers
with a lexicon of flame
blazing rare knowledge.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.

Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“Itterasshai.
Go and come back safely.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her body, despite the things that'd been done to it, and she wanted to claim it, to own it, to prove that to herself. She knew it wasn't magic, but the idea of writing her own identity felt like the closest she could get to reclaiming her life. Sometimes there's power in the act; sometimes there's strength in words. She wanted to find an image that represented those things she was feeling, to etch it on her skin as tangible proof of her decision to change.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion”
― Tawny Lara

“What should be standing in the shoes of passion, and be walking on the plans of action is sitting in the ink on the papper. Why? Because of the fear to start.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.”
― Emily Post

“I am only an idea, a requirement breathed to life-an instrument. A tool.”
― Dawn Metcalf, Indelible

“Do you trust me?"
She could still hear him, through flesh and noise.
"I love you!" she shouted.
It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes.”
― Dawn Metcalf, Indelible

“Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Now relax, think positively and begin --- the smile of success awaits you.”
― Claudia Nice, Drawing in Pen & Ink

“Best friend is like a pen and we're the paper. We'll not complete without their ink”
― Lucy 'Aisy

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.

The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.

The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.

Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.

She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.

I am a new man.
I snarl at her and bark.
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.”
― Mark Strand, Poetry Foundation Magazine, January 2011

“A letter to the beloved is like the ink kissing the paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est - L'encre embrassant le papier)”
― Charles de Leusse

“Oh, Narcissus! My heart beats ink for you.
A pulse in every line.
It's your eyes
my words want to be read by,
your kind of mind
they would be understood by,
your heart
they'd be felt by,
and then you'd feel the same way that I do,
if only these words could be read or heard by you.”
― Steven L. Sheppard, The Untold Story Of Narcissus And Echo

“Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack”
― Nina Jean Slack

“There is aerated ink caked in the air vents from the printing presses that shake the whole building when they run. Some reporters have ink in their veins. The Sun-Times staff have ink in their lungs. Once in a while someone will complain to OSHA.”
― Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls

“I am the Penitent God. And tonight, I have begun my battle. My siege. The hundred-thousand Ink-borne arrows, flying forth from my flaming pen, to assault the walls of tyrannical Cold that hold this man in awful rapture. My campaign for my friend’s very soul. My war of Ice, Ink, and Ember.”
― S.G. Night

“With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word.”
― Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

“I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Lack of courage is what makes big dreams to sit in the ink of the paper instead of them running in the shoes of actions. Without courage, you remain a dreamer!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“I love you, Ink, and I want you-only you. Being strong doesn't mean I don't want you too. You are the only person who knows every part of my life, every part of me in it, the good and the bad and the horrible, and you still love me. You are always with me, even when you're not there. And when you're not there, I can feel it, like an empty space where you ought to be, and I can hardly wait until you're back to fill it again. Neither world feels like it fits, but we belong.”
― Dawn Metcalf, Invisible

“It is always better to write your feeling in GRAPHITE than in INK,
As it’s much easier to erase them and start fresh as life does not give the freedom to do so….
In INK it takes time to fade away as life does….”
― Sarvesh Murthi .D.D

“I summon worlds into existence employing nothing but ink and paper.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft