Canto 32 Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire said you know who is in control by what you can't say. — Kris Saknussemm

Alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills. — Charles Bukowski

What is this insurmountable barrier round him? What's it made of? Where did it come from? — Dodie Smith

Emma wondered not for the first time how silence could vary so much in pitch and tone. This silence held a high-pitched scream at its heart. — Rachel Abbott

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own. — Seneca The Younger

I think we're in the time when the metaphysical world is so interesting. — Alyssa Milano

Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do. — Marianne Williamson