Bryce

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand … hopeless from the start. A story, a picture, can renew sensation a little, but not enough, not enough. Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“I watched the trees gradually recede, waving their despairing arms, seeming to say to me: "What you fail to learn from us today, you will never know.”
― Marcel Proust; translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, In Search of Lost Time 6 VOLUME SET