Nekogoroshi Hen Quotes & Sayings

What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth ... — Stephen Fry

All mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. — Richard Rohr

Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.) — Friedrich Nietzsche

They passed lands that had no name, where fens of mirror pools stretched into unknown distances, thousands of fragments of sky sprinkled across this bastard offspring of earth and sea, lonely birds calling out over the desolation, and Yarvi breathed deep the salt chill and longed for home. — Joe Abercrombie

If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end. — Sharon Bolton

The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music. — Lynda Barry

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. — J.K. Rowling

If they come to this forest, to us here, seeking shelter from the havoc that has been brought upon their lands, at the hands of evil, I say come. I say join us in this fight! The royal throne of Northbrook no longer resides in Gamlock. It is here. Now. In this place. You are its soldiers, I am its king, and we will work together to unite all who are willing to fight alongside us! (Wharick) — Madison Thorne Grey

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. — Jean Genet