Ascalon Settlement Quotes & Sayings

All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn - all these are stubbornly imperishable, all these persist, are inaccessible but cling on, envious of everything that is, stuck in their own terrible reality. People would like to be allowed to forget much of it, their sleep gliding softly over these furrows in the brain, but dreams come and push sleep aside and fill the picture again. And so they wake up breathless, let the light of a candle dissolve the darkness as they drink the comforting half-light as if it was sugared water. But, alas, the edge on which this security is balancing is a narrow one. Given the slightest little turn and their gaze slips away from the familiar and the friendly, and the contours that had so recently been comforting take the sharp outlines of an abyss of horror. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else. — Frederick Lenz

Men and women balance each other out and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other. — Beyonce Knowles

WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! - (.Y.). — Andy Weir

Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof — Joseph Lallo

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm about to as you a favor.
And I'm about to tell you no. — Jenny B. Jones

The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace. — Eileen Myles