Jonathan D. Clark > Quotes

“Politics is a game which is never kind to the fools who choose to practice it.”
― Jonathan D. Clark, Arcadia

“We create our own narrative: every typo, every misquoted phrase and poorly thought out abbreviation dictating the arrhythmic flow of each meaningless sentence of our lives.”
― Jonathan D. Clark, False Cathedrals

“Quiet are the moments of honest reflection. Seldom do they come with enough time to appreciate what might lie under the surface, awaiting discovery—if anything should be found at all.”
― Jonathan D. Clark, False Cathedrals

“During the dark, inactive hours of twilight, everything appeared uninhabited and without a soul; forgotten.”
― Jonathan D. Clark, False Cathedrals

“Everybody dreams of ruling the world at some point.”
― Jonathan D. Clark, As Ithaca Lay Forgotten

“He wished he could go back. But unfortunately, he knew it to be an impossibility—that time could only travel forward and the simplicity of his childhood would remain lost to the past.”
― Jonathan D. Clark, As Ithaca Lay Forgotten

“I’ve decided I want to live a life of letters, because letters never fade away. They’ve stood the test of time for several millennia. And here we are, still using them—even as we speak.”
― Jonathan D. Clark, False Cathedrals

“Everything we ever did as a species was always nothing more than a foolish, subconscious attempt to either reach for the Heavens or to stave off the inevitability of death, treating such a natural occurrence like a cancer: something we could defeat, if only we could discover the cure. But we failed to realize the futility of it all. Even stars and galaxies die. And if something as cosmic and transcendent as the very fabric of our universe is susceptible to the concept of death, then why did we believe we ever stood a chance of accomplishing such a feat ourselves?”
― Jonathan D. Clark, As Ithaca Lay Forgotten