Calcinated Quotes & Sayings

Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real. — Peter Kreeft

I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction. — Melina Marchetta

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. — Ambrose Bierce

It's probably not going to shock you to hear this, but I'm fricking starving. — Eve Jagger

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things. — Stana Katic

Never fear being wrong, just staying wrong. — W.M. Driscoll

Dragonsbane, they called him.
Slayer of dragons.
Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that. — Barbara Hambly

Hope, on one hand, is an absurdity too embarrassing to speak about, for it flies in the face of all those claims we have been told are facts. Hope is the refusal to accept the reading of reality which is the majority opinion; and one does that only at great political and existential risk. On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question. — Walter Brueggemann

He words we did not shout, the tears unshed, the curse we swallowed,
the phrase we shortened, the love we killed, turned into magnetic iron ore,
into tourmaline, into pyrite agate, blood congealed into cinnabar, blood calcinated, leadened into galena,
oxidized, aluminized, sulphated, calcinated,
the mineral glow of dead meteors and exhausted suns in the forest of dead trees
and dead desires. — Anais Nin

No one individual can tell the truth. — William Faulkner