Ananaya

“I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.”
― Third Earl Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

“Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away...”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children