Claterynge Quotes & Sayings

Socrates proved the immortality of the soul from the fact that the sickness of the soul (sin) does not consume it as sickness of the body consumes the body. So also we can demonstrate the eternal in man from the fact that despair cannot consume his self, that this precisely is the torment of contradiction in despair. If there were nothing eternal in a man, he could not despair; but if despair could consume his self, there would still be no despair. — Soren Kierkegaard

It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful. — Richard Flanagan

A chronometer will measure intervals precisely, but not the passage of time. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul. — Neale Donald Walsch

Books. Cats. Life is Good. — Edward Gorey

When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself. — Percy Bysshe Shelley