Sherwood Anderson
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that. — Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio (The Franklin Library; First Thus edition, January 1, 1980)
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Emil Cioran
I have no ideas, only obsessions. Anybody can have ideas. Ideas have never caused anybody’s downfall. — Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair (University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition October 1, 1996) Originally published 1933.
China Miéville
“The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.” ― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station (Macmillian; 1ST edition, January 1, 2001)
Ray Bradbury
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Simon & Schuster, January 1, 2012) Originally October 19, 1953.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it’s the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears. ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 23,… Continue reading Richelle E. Goodrich
Lauren E. Simonutti
Madness strips things down to their core. It takes everything and in exchange offers only more madness, and the occasional ability to see things that are not there. — Lauren E. Simonutti
G.K. Chesterton
It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (Ignatius Press; First edition, June 19, 1995)
Gabriel García Márquez
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die. ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love In The Time of Cholera. (Vintage October 7, 2003) Originally published 1985.
Simone Weilz
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. ― Simone Weil
Emil Cioran
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be. — Emil Cioran, The Book of Delusions ( Humanitas, January 1, 1991) Originally published January 1, 1936,
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