Iulia

“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”
― Stephen King, Dark Tower Set

“Where have I read that at the end, when life, surface upon surface, has become completely encrusted with experience, you know everything, the secret, the power, and the glory, why you were born, why you are dying, and how it all could have been different? You are wise. But the greatest wisdom, at that moment, is knowing that your wisdom is too late. You understand everything when there is no longer anything to understand.”
― Umberto Eco

“Purtăm fără lacrimi
o boală în strune
şi mergem de-a pururi
spre soare-apune.

Ni-e sufletul spadă
de foc stinsă-n teacă.
Ah iarăşi şi iarăşi
cuvintele seacă.

Vânt veşnic răsună
prin ceţini de zadă.
Purces-am în lume
pe punţi de baladă.

Străbatem amurguri
cu crini albi în gură.
Închidem în noi un
sfârşit sub armură.

Purtăm fără lacrimi
o boală în strune
şi mergem de-a pururi
spre soare-apune.

Răni ducem - izvoare -
deschise subt haină.
Sporim nesfârşirea
c-un cântec, c-o taină.”
― Lucian Blaga, La cumpăna apelor

“The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It was white and blinding and waterless and without feature save for the faint, cloudy haze of the mountains which sketched themselves on the horizon and the devil-grass which brought sweet dreams, nightmares, death. An occasional tombstone sign pointed the way, for once the drifted track that cut its way through the thick crust of alkali had been a highway. Coaches and buckas had followed it. The world had moved on since then. The world had emptied.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger