Jonathan Aycliffe Quotes & Sayings

I was away from home, I was a virgin, I thought I had a soul. — Jonathan Aycliffe

Three things I remember: I was in a city so old it did not have a name,; there was a full moon that cast a pale light over buildings unlike any I had ever seen before; and at the end of a long tunnel something was waiting for me. — Jonathan Aycliffe

He had been ploughing his way through the early volumes, discovering the origins of Lazenby's twin obsessions: sex and eternal life. — Jonathan Aycliffe

Sometimes the darkness beacame so hideous, I would have sold my soul for light. The devil is not called Lucifer for nothing. — Jonathan Aycliffe

Oblivion, or an eternal sleep in which no pain could come to him again. — Jonathan Aycliffe

I used to joke that she'd married me for my books and my knowledge of the field, and she used to laugh and shake her head. — Jonathan Aycliffe

Ask her what you want, and she will answer. She listens at mornings and at nights, and her voice is never silent. — Jonathan Aycliffe

He thought the ancient Babylonians knew the truth of existence, knew things that were lost later on. Lost or destroyed. Not just the usual stuff about wisdom. — Jonathan Aycliffe

Moments later, I too came up from a lake of sleep, like a drowning man rising to air, and for several moments I lay in the darkness, bewildered. — Jonathan Aycliffe

There was a lot about the Babylonians, how their religion was the original, the most authentic, how their gods were symbols for another reality, that if one could rediscover their rituals and use them as they were meant to be used, one could gain enlightenment. — Jonathan Aycliffe

There are moments in the middle of winter when all seems lost, and the darkness presses in like death, and everthing is cold, and I wake in the night shivering, and relive all I went through then. — Jonathan Aycliffe

My next thought was that it might be a city of the jinn, inhabited by a race of demons, its walls the work of magic, it houses built of smoke. — Jonathan Aycliffe