Gnatcatcher Southern Quotes & Sayings

The sky was so heartless and dark, and her body, her head, and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At every slap and splash of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored nausea and there was an increasing number, okay, or numbness in her neck and arms. As she began losing track of herself, she thought it proper to inform a series of receding Lucettes
telling them to pass it on and on in a trick-crystal regression
that what death amounted to was only a more complete assortment of the infinite fractions of solitude. — Vladimir Nabokov

The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself. — Simone Weil

The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness. — Tara Brach

The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions. — Raymond Chandler

The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion. — Frederick Lenz

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. — William Shakespeare

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy. — Mary Shelley

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses. — Sophie Irene Loeb

A kiss, for instance, is not to be minimized, or its value judged by anyone else. I wonder do these men grade their pleasure in terms of whether their actions produce a child or not, and do they consider them more pleasant if they do. It is a question of pleasure after all, and what's the use of debating the pleasure of an ice cream cone versus a football game - or a Beethoven quartet versus the Mona Lisa. I'll leave that to the philosophers. — Patricia Highsmith

Demon's coming! Everyone dies. Except for her useless father. He'll live for ever. — Maggie Stiefvater

One of the most exciting things in life is when you can't get enough of learning something you love. — Ron Baratono