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  • #1
    John Milton
    “Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”
    John Milton
    tags: hope

  • #2
    T.H. White
    “[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but
    only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #4
    Aldous Huxley
    “It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
    Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
    Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
    Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

    I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
    Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
    When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
    No rhetoric, no tremolos,
    no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
    And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
    Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

    So throw away your baggage and go forward.
    There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
    trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
    That’s why you must walk so lightly.
    Lightly my darling,
    on tiptoes and no luggage,
    not even a sponge bag,
    completely unencumbered.”
    Aldous Huxley , Island

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #6
    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

  • #7
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #8
    Nancy A. Collins
    “... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.”
    Nancy A. Collins

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
    'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
    'I don't much care where -' said Alice.
    'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
    '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
    'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #10
    Tom Stoppard
    “It would have been nice to have had unicorns.”
    Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #12
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #13
    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #14
    Tom Stoppard
    “A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.”
    Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
    “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
    “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
    “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #19
    Tom Stoppard
    “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
    Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “What's done cannot be undone.”
    William Shakespeare , Macbeth

  • #22
    Tom Stoppard
    “Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
    Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat.
    Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
    Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.”
    Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

  • #23
    Graham Greene
    “Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.”
    Graham Greene, The Quiet American

  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “Sometimes words are not enough.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #26
    Graham Greene
    “I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.”
    Graham Greene, The Quiet American

  • #27
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  • #28
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #29
    Graham Greene
    “He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.”
    Graham Greene, The Quiet American

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid



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