Burghausen Burg Quotes & Sayings

I could set the world on fire, and call it rain. — Victoria Aveyard

I know that our efforts all come to nothing. I know the end of us all is nothing, I know that at the end of Time, the reward of our toil will be nothing - and again nothing. I know that all our handiwork will be destroyed. I know that not even ash will be left from the fires that consume us. I know that our ideals, even those we achieve, will vanish in the eternal darkness of oblivion and final non-being. There is no hope, none, in my heart. No promise, none, can I make to myself and to others. No recompense can I expect for my labors. No fruit will be born of my thoughts. The Future - eternal seducer of all men, eternal cause of all effects - offers me nothing but the blank prospect of annihilation. — Giovanni Papini

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia ... he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King. — Barbara Tuchman

A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God — Pope Francis

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with someone. — Shirley Jackson