Category: Quotes

There it is, they’d say. Over and over—there it is, my friend, there it is—as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazyand almost crazy, knowing without going, there it is, which meant becool, let it ride, because Oh yeah, man, you can’t change what can’t bechanged, there it is,…

I’m entitled, she’d say. I’m old enough, I’ve paid my dues, it’s time for me to be quaint. You’re still wet behind the ears. Piglet, I should have said. As Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 Dar să fi auzit despre ce vorbeau. În primul rînd că erau amîndoi cam ciupiţi. O pipăia pe sub…

Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.  To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect. William Shakespeare Hamlet Hamlet 39 It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now. Jane…

Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze, But that this folly doubts it. William Shakespeare Hamlet…

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. Paradise Lost 6875 What hath night to do with sleep? Paradise Lost 1639 Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven. Paradise Lost 974 Solitude sometimes is best society. Paradise Lost 777 Long is…

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .. Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse…