[Serious] What are some of the most beautiful lines or words you've ever read or heard?

Every single soldier wasn't fired, some have quit.

or Don't die for anything less than the best of life.

If I could major in streetlight manifesto I would.

When the world is sick can't no one be well, but I dreamt we was all beautiful and strong.

I wasn't really sure how to reply to this thread but this is a line from a song that is not only beautiful when sung but reminds me every day not only to be compassionate to myself and others, but that there are many other people out there who dream of a better world for us all, and it gives me hope to keep on dreaming too.

Future Lt. General of the USMC Lewis "Chesty" Puller, upon seeing a flamethrower for the first time: "where the hell do you put the bayonet?"

I think it's beautiful in a classic Americana, red-blooded male kind of way.

Love is cursed by monogamy. Beautiful because there is so much truth in it.

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Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'-The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The Declaration of Independence

Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux or "One must imagine Sisyphus happy"

I read "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus during a really intense and sad period in my life. I didn't take philosophy so I don't know if my interpretation is valid, but I thought the idea was that life is random and the universe is uncaring. As humans we're constantly trying to apply order and reason to something that is ultimately arbitrary and indecipherable. Sometimes the world just decides to fuck you over and all you can do is engage in a pointless struggle.

Instead of mourning that, embrace it. Relish all the heartbreak and struggle and pointlessness you encounter because it's a part of your life experience. Accept the fact that you can't always win and go on to choose happiness anyway. Live "superior to [your] fate, stronger than your rock" and imagine Sisyphus happy.

"To my first love, I’m grateful for you. Grateful that even though it wasn’t what I hoped for and even though it was never enough, it was. Some things never are... and we were. I won’t forget you. I won’t forget the summer. I’ll remember who I was when I met you."