Lithophanic Quotes & Sayings

Where is the boundary between your thoughts and feelings and my thoughts and feelings? Where does it end - the outer layer of epidermis? If you look at the body as energy - not matter - maybe there's a possibility we as human beings are more connected to one another than we realize. — John Astin

Alas, I was unable to transcend the simple human fact that whatever spiritual solace I might find, whatever lithophanic eternities might be provided for me, nothing could make my Lolita forget the foul lust I had inflicted upon her. Unless it can be proven to me -to me as I am now, today, with my heart and my beard, and my putrefaction- that in the infinitue run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl-child names Dolores Haze had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless this can be proven (and if it can, then life is a joke), I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. To quote an old poet:
The moral sense in mortals is the duty
We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty. — Vladimir Nabokov

Never meet trouble half-way. — John Ray

Those who do scientific or medical studies and have conclusions are reflecting the results preferred by those who pay them. — Richard Diaz

Fly with wings of love. — Debasish Mridha

They have a voice and I love seeing them in such a positive way. - JC, 15, USA — Jazmin Williams

Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves. — Blaise Pascal

Whatever you may think of Judaism, Lyuba, in the end it's just a codified system of anxieties. — Gary Shteyngart

They're basically trick contractions. They make you think you're going to finally exorcise the demon from your belly, but they're just a constant false alarm. — Lauren Blakely

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize. — Susan Sontag