Mark Roberts

“K.’s uncle, who had already been made very angry by the long wait, turned abruptly round and retorted, “Ill? You say he’s ill?” and strode towards the gentleman in a way that seemed almost threatening, as if he were the illness himself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. All”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms. Consider”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. Every”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius