18 quotes found
“Your heart swallowed me like a well and I will never be able to climb out. I fell. I fell into your infinity. And my inability to free myself will doom your life.”
“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”
“I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...”
“While the light remains,' said Carde, speaking slowly in his high deliberate voice, 'only do not forsake the joy of life. If you shall have given all your kisses, you will give too few. And as leav...”
“But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all thi...”
“O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one's relatives do un...”
“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
“The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It mag...”
“Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.”
“All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we sm...”
“An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does”
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Bu...”
“I think the only way to properly face doom is to be on time.”
“Why not simply surrender to ones doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?”
“Why not simply surrender to one’s doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?”