Joseph Cottin

“Come...Dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“How strange it is that the sky, which by day is a stationary ground on which the clouds are seen to move, by night becomes the backdrop for Earth's own motion, so that we feel her rolling beneath us as a sailor feels the running of the tide.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“Inexpressible and nameless is that which gives my soul agony and sweetness and is even the hunger of my entrails.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There ought to exist for the human being, in so far as he is conscious of being, a certain mode of standing opposite his past and his future, as being both this past and this future and as not being them.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness