Alex A

“There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

“Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances. None of us know what a year may bring forth.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“I only ask to live, with pure faith keeping
In word and deed that Law which leaps the sky,
Made of no mortal mould, undimmed, unsleeping
Whose living godhead does not age or die.”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“Initially all he dreamed and wished for, eventually it became his bitter lot. Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pleasure the ruin of the pleasure-seeker.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf