Parca Quotes & Sayings

I'm afraid of an extra face
in the mirror and sudden
nights with voices, the deep
certainty of things.
(from Parca) — Salvador Espriu

People think of poetry as a school subject ... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover. — Billy Collins

They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become. — John Burnham Schwartz

The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the man of understanding in his own actions. — Marcus Aurelius

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets. — Uday Kotak

The hunger to be alone, characteristic of anyone in stage four, comes from sheer suspense. The person cannot wait to find out what comes next in the unfolding of the soul's drama. — Deepak Chopra

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave. — Denise Sevier Fries

Every wound I had was a light that either blinded me or helped me to see clearly. — Shannon L. Alder

And for an apple damn'd mankind. — Thomas Otway

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them. — Jackie Pullinger

'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination. — Imogen Poots