“For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her
glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened
-- then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret,
like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Night kept coming and there was nothing I could do."
~ Charles Bukowski
My head is so crowded with ghosts I sometimes think it will burst.
My dreams flame with horror.
My memories are gray with ash.
I am a survivor.
~ Jack Eisner
"Reason
writes on the wall the appalling judgements that there is no God; that
the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous
word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the
body, as music dies when the strings are broken."
~ Diderot
"Now
that I have toiled and strayed so far over the world, am I to sleep,
and let the earth cover my head forever? Let my eyes see the sun until
they are dazzled with looking. Although I am no better than a dead man, still let me see the light of the sun."
~ Gilgamesh
"All living creatures born of the flesh shall sit at last in the boat of the West, and when it sinks, they are gone."
~ Gilgamesh
Wet in the windy counties of the dawn
The lone crow skirls his draggled passage home:
And God (whose sparrows fall aslant his gaze,
Like grace or confetti) blinks and he is gone.
~ Thomas McGrath
