“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks, 1836Share
“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide—but so quickly close again!”— Nathaniel HawthorneShare
“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.”— Nathaniel HawthorneShare
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”— Albert CamusShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”— C.S. LewisShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”— John MiltonShare
