William Sloane > Quotes

“A love that is true to living persons and existing realities is steadfast and fine. But I saw then, for the first time, that a love which was fastened upon the dead and true to nothing but a past that was finished, is not a good nor true emotion. If it went on too long, it could become an incubus, throttling a man from the real life of the present, which is the life that we were fashioned to meet and experience.”
― William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“would not be for the sake of a woman five years dead whose image in my mind was now as evanescent as the smell of lavender in an old drawer.”
― William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“The man was disconcerting and, when I spoke again, it annoyed me to hear that my tone sounded apologetic.”
― William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“tibi terra levis. “May the earth lie light upon thee,”
― William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“Sit tibi terra levis. “May the earth lie light upon”
― William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“All of us are too much concerned with this life,” she remarked; she spoke as if what she were saying was an obvious fact instead of a philosophic platitude. “It is time that a man like Julian”
― William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

“It is a curious fact that men who know nothing of each other tend to work in the same direction at the same time. Darwin and Wallace, Mendel and de Vries.”
― William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror