Quotes

“Mid-way in life’s journey
I found myself in a dark wood,
Having lost the way.”
-Dante, The Inferno.

“Our hearts have overwhelmed new agonies, with new
Luster and silence…the mystery has grown savage,
and God has grown greater.
The dark powers ascend, for they have also grown greater,
and the entire human island quakes.”
-Nikos Kazantzakis, The Saviors of God.

“Life must be remembered backward, but lived forward.”
-Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard.

“If you bring forth what is within you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
-The Gospel According to Thomas.

“The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs:
the deep moans round with many voices.
Come my friends,
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
-Tennyson Ulysses

“None of us can help the things life has done to us.
They’re done before you realize it.
And once they’re done, they make you do other things,
until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like
to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
-Eugene O’Neill A long Day’s Journey Into Night