Wim Dc

“But what will follow? Just this apathy, this dead flatness? Will there come a time when I no longer ask why the world is like a mean street, because I shall take the squalor as normal?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“But it will happen anyhow. I only wish I’d lived a more human life than I did. But it happened the way it happened, and so there’s no more to say.’ ‘I wish I could believe,’ Estelle said, ‘that there will be no sorrow in the universe I make.’ ‘Then create nothing, my dear,’ Gifford Bonner said. ‘Stay here. Creation means sorrow, always and always.’ ‘And joy,’ Estelle said. ‘Well, yes. There’s that.”
― James Blish, Cities in Flight

“I thought I’d changed and grown into someone else. And I wasn’t wrong, but I wasn’t right either.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it. You believe that? I dont know. Believe that.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West