Sombre Quotes

“Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.”
― Petrarch

“Façade. One, simple word. But, very complex portents. It’s like living a life of half-dead. You are neither fully inside a grave, nor completely out of it, beyond the oppressive calmness of the slabs, tombstones and plaques. There is one solace though, you soon discover that you are not alone in the vast graveyard of the half-dead. This is what Kamini soon realized when she plunged herself back into the world that the destiny had conspired her to inherit.”
― Vinod Pande, Don's wife

“They linked arms with him in a way K. had never walked with anyone before”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“In a moment he would call Tana and they would pour into themselves a gay and delicate poison which would restore them momentarily to the pleasurable excitement of childhood, when every face in a crowd had carried its suggestion of splendid and significant transactions taking place somewhere to some magnificent and illimitable purpose...Life was no more than this summer afternoon; a faint wind stirring the lace collar of Gloria's dress, the slow baking drowsiness of the veranda...Intolerably unmoved they all seemed, removed from any romantic imminency of action. Even Gloria's beauty needed wild emotions, needed poignancy, needed death...”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned

“But a broken blade can still cut, Diago.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many

“Depression kills faster than cyanide.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“A comforting gesture. "But a broken blade can still cut, Diago.”
― James Islington, The Will of the Many