Xibalba Quotes & Sayings

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. — Virginia Woolf

A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead. — Terence McKenna

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. — Lewis Thomas

We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy? — Cinda Williams Chima

People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice. — Jack Davenport

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. — Edsger Dijkstra