The writings on the wall

I am intrigued by what people write on the walls of bathrooms at clubs. Maybe I read them to beat the boredom of standing in the long lines that seem to form only at female bathrooms. Or maybe because among the usual "so-and-so was here" and "X loves Y", there are some genuinely interesting things on those walls. I found this at the MonAstery in Grahamstown, where the bathrooms are unisex and the scribblings a little more creative.

And then there is this, the most wonderful collection of music, literature, theatre and philosophy in the form of quotes scribbled down on an A4 page, stuck to the inside of a toilet door at the top floor of the Rhodes University English department. 

"If we shadows have offended,
 Think but this, and all is mended—
 That you have but slumbered here
 While these visions did appear.
 And this weak and idle theme,
 No more yielding but a dream"
- A Midsummer Night's Dream

"We read the world wrong, and say it deceives us" - Tagore

"Cloudlight
Floating in magically colorful pieces of sky
Pieces of skylight"
Cloudlight - Eskmo

“If only, if only…”
The moon speaks no reply,
Reflecting the sun and all that’s gone by.
Be strong, my weary wolf;
Turn around boldly.
Fly high, my baby bird—
My angel, my only.

If only, if only,”
The woodpecker sighs,
“The bark on the trees was as soft as the skies.”
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely;
Crying to the moon,
“If only, if only…” - Holes

"It was only a kiss. How did it end up like this?"
Mr Brightside - The Killers

"It all started with a man who lost his cat" - Murakami

"I think I'll go home and mull this over before I cram it down my throat
At long last it's crashed, the colossal mass has broken up into bits in my moat."
Caring is Creepy - The Shins