Episodic Ataxia Quotes & Sayings

The night sky was brighter than it had been. On the clearest nights the stars were a cloud of light across the breadth of the sky, extravagant in their multitudes . . . The era of light pollution had come to an end. The increasing brilliance meant the grid was failing, darkness pooling over the earth. I was here for the end of electricity. The thought sent shivers up Clark's spine. — Emily St. John Mandel

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. — Simone Weil

While I knew him, he made me see--Poe did; made me understand that, unlike a bodily organ, the soul desires, even wills, its own continuance.It can be said to be the seat of will and desire and, even in its necrotic state, the root of evil. ... A Sunday school lesson or one of Cotton Mather's gaudy rants that helped to kindle the Salem bonfires is nearer to the truth of it than a fable by Poe, Hawthorne, or Melville. Evil's a malignancy beyond the skill and scalpel of {doctors} to heal or extirpate. — Norman Lock

A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder. — Anthony Hope

Because either way, whichever life I build, has to be built on truth. — Ally Condie

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The only works of man in heaven are the marks of the cross on Jesus' body. — David Servant

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. — Frederick Lenz