Marchantia Quotes & Sayings

I think of winter, which is nothing but a rift in the firmament through which the winds break loose, the shreds of cloud over the hilltops in the new blue of the morning
and dew-drops, those false pearls, and frost, that beauty powder, and mankind in disarray and events out of joint, and so many spots on the sun and so many craters in the moon and so much wretchedness everywhere
when I think of all this I can't help feeling that God is not rich. He has the appearance of riches, certainly, but I can feel his embarrassment. He gives us a revolution the way a bankrupt merchant gives a ball. We must not judge any god by appearances. I see a shoddy universe beyond that splendour of the sky. Creation itself is bankrupt, and that's why I'm a malcontent. — Victor Hugo

Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back — Robert Quillen

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver. — J.G. Ballard

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The first one is always the hardest. — Cassandra Clare

Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of events are blended with the strange. The author pulled me inside his mind, and what I found there was a dead stillness, the somber and poignant wisdom of someone with little hope and scars across his eyes. There was humor there, too. But not the bright kind. The man who wrote that book is dead. So it goes. — Hugh Howey

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all. — Jack London