Xxiiis Quotes & Sayings

THE UNIVERSE PROCEEDS out of what it has been and into what it will be, inexorably, unstoppably, at the rate of one second per second, one year per year, forever. At right angles to its forward progress lie the past and the future. The future, that is to say, does not lie "ahead" of the present in the stream of time, but at a right angle to it: the future of any present moment can be projected as far as you like outward from it, infinitely in fact, but when the universe has proceeded further, and a new present moment has succeeded this one, the future of this one retreats with it into the what-has-been, forever outdated. It is similar but more complicated with the past. — John Crowley

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven. — James Russell Lowell

But there is nothing which one saint was, that you may not be. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child. — Jet Black

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. — Philip Dunne