Sophie Metcalfe

“We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

“The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was a complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and the wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on.. I realised that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.. I felt sweet, swinging bliss, like a big shot of heroin in the mainline vein; like a gulp of wine late in the afternoon and it makes you shudder; my feet tingled.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road