Michael Barrell

“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Nobody's death is impending."
..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian

“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning