Pages 68 69 Quotes & Sayings

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense. — Debasish Mridha

History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm. — Brandon Sanderson

There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally. — Abraham Kuyper

Better beware of the newly dead

Of the white-handed ghost

And the brightness of these lamps . . .

wrote Luc Berimont in 1940, in Reign of Darkness.

I've always felt the greatest reluctance to go anywhere near, to touch, a fresh corpse. For me, it's an unseemly thing. Useless. Hostile. Cunning. Dangerous. The 'presence' is much stronger, more perceptible one hour after death than one hour before. By my observation, this was not the case with Heisserer.

He was entirely absent from his head, his hands,his quivering body. He was gone instantly, unburdened of his absurd life, released. — Jacques Yonnet

Desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out, was a profusion of geography, of atmosphere, of full empty air. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being. — Cassandra Clare

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. — Alice Weaver Flaherty