Iridescent Background Quotes & Sayings

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. — Horace Mann

Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows. — Richard Powers

But the sun will rise the day after tomorrow
A millennium without us silences our last echo
To tiny fragments even our plastics are reduced
In Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed — A.A. Patawaran

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask
perhaps more than once
where the dead person is and when he is coming back. — Richard Adams

Small, forthright words, used in the service of condensing experience, might have an idea buried in them as large as the most expansive work that wears its intellectualism on its sleeve. The unshed tears of the deeply felt are akin to the unused large words in the service of a thought. — Sarah Ruhl

Minds of people need a good revolution and great quotations are good revolutionists! — Mehmet Murat Ildan