Immolating Gyre Quotes & Sayings

brooding over the upper reaches, became — Joseph Conrad

It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have done nothing at all. So people have come into the world for particular tasks, and that is our purpose. If we don't perform it, we will have done nothing. — Rumi

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job. — Michael Mina

Yuki (in a standoff with Zero): We're going to stay like this until vol. 10? Why ... don't we sit down ... Zero?
Zero: I can't. If I sit down, I won't be able to get up again. (I've reached my limits in many ways).
Yuki: Well, I'm going to sit ... — Matsuri Hino

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. — William Shakespeare

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan — Guy Kawasaki

A shaman walks the thin line of insanity and bliss. — Lori Morrison

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want. — Kathy Acker

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them. — Johnny Ramone

And before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love. — Bret Easton Ellis