Samella Glenna

“Unfortunately I am afraid, as always, of going on. For to go on means going from here, means finding me, losing me, vanishing and beginning again, a stranger first, then little by little the same as always, in another place, where I shall say I have always been, of which I shall know nothing, being incapable of seeing, moving, thinking, speaking, but of which little by little, in spite of these handicaps, I shall begin to know something, just enough for it to turn out to be the same place as always, the same which seems made for me and does not want me, which I seem to want and do not want, take your choice, which spews me out or swallows me up, I’ll never know, which is perhaps merely the inside of my distant skull where once I wandered, now am fixed, lost for tininess, or straining against the walls, with my head, my hands, my feet, my back, and ever murmuring my old stories, my old story, as if it were the first time.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

“Starting from this point of view, it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“«الموت!» وقال في ذات نفسه: «عجيب» أن يكون ثمة مثل هذه الكلمة ومثل هذا الشيء ثم ننساهما بالكلية. وأن يكون المرء حياً، دافئاً، وجميلاً، تعمر قلبه الآمال والرغبات والحاجات يوماً، ثم لا تشرق عليه شمس اليوم التالي حتى يكون قد فارق هذه الأرض إلى الأبد.»”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, ‫كوخ العم توم‬

“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange