Jesse Wagner > Jesse's Quotes

“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
― Alan Watts

“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”
― Aleister Crowley

“You don't want to become so open minded that the wind whistles between your ears.”
― -Terrence McKenna

“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists for ever.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.”
― Echart Tolle

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer