"That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha ... See MoreSee Less

"We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness ... See MoreSee Less

"There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen, Anthem ... See MoreSee Less

"Thou shalt prove
How salt the savour is of other's bread,
How hard the passage to descend and climb
By other's stairs."
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy ... See MoreSee Less

"I call architecture frozen music."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letter to Johann Peter Eckermann ... See MoreSee Less

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections ... See MoreSee Less

"Clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury ... See MoreSee Less

"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened..."
- T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets: Burnt Norton ... See MoreSee Less

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more."
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth ... See MoreSee Less

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows."
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View ... See MoreSee Less

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five ... See MoreSee Less

"There are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters ... See MoreSee Less

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"The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns."
- James Joyce, Dubliners ... See MoreSee Less

"Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain - Quaintest thoughts - queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
- Edgar Allan Poe, Lines on Ale ... See MoreSee Less