Lethean Quotes & Sayings

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in. — Jim Wallis

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river ... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies. — Virgil

Today ... no performance can be without its control screen video ... its goal is to be hooked up to itself ... the mirror phase has given way to the video phase. What develops around the video or stereo culture is not a narcissistic imaginary, but an effect of frantic self-referentiality, a short-circuit which immediately hooks up like with like, and, in doing so, emphasizes their surface intensity and deeper meaninglessness. — Jean Baudrillard

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ. — Francis Schaeffer

Putting yourself first means you will never be last. — Stephen Richards

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort. — Vladimir Nabokov

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas - where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories. — George Eliot

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. — William Shakespeare

I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily.
"Hey, you stole my line," Dan said. — Jude Watson

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into. — Robert Gottlieb

Some skins you never want to wear, boy. You won't like what you'd become. — George R R Martin

The lunatic who thinks he is a crowned head may be, in a sense, happy, but his happiness is not of a kind that any sane person would envy. — Bertrand Russell

If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time. — Jean Houston

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. — C.S. Lewis

I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body. — Madonna Ciccone

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool," he started again. "Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage. Whoa! Guarantee plantation atmosphere, got cotton growin right on the stage right in front your eyeball, got a civil right worker gettin his ass beat up between show. Hey! — John Kennedy Toole

Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana