Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Excerpts
I ain't feeling like writing but I do want to put up something here.So instead of thinking/using my own mind I'll just be a plagiarist and put up some quotes/excerpts.They are in no particular order or subject.But they are words-words which never fails to evoke an emotion watever it maybe.
"But suicide's a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build."
-Anne Saxton
Wanting to Die
"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort:with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
-Friedrich Nietzsehe
"...the air was cold and sad,the river dark and dim,the whole scene like a lifeless desert.
Waste forces within him,and a desert all around,this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace,and saw for a moment,a mirage of honorable ambition,self-denial,and perseverance.In the fair city of his vision,there were airy galleries from which loves and graces look upon him,gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening,water of Hope that sparkled in his sight.A moment,and it was gone."
-A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
"How could I've ever longed for amnesia?Memory- capricious and unreliable though it is,ultimately carries its own truth within it.As long as there is memory,there's always the possibility of retrieval,as long as there is memory,loss is never total."
-Small Remedies
Shashi Deshpande
"The Moving Finger writes;and,having writ,
Moves on:nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it."
-Omar Khayyam
"We,inIndia,think quickly,we talk quickly and when we move,we move quickly...Episode follows episode, and when our thoughts stop our breath stops, and we move on to another thought.This was and still is the ordinary style of our story-telling."
-Preface to Kanthapura
Raja Rao
"But suicide's a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build."
-Anne Saxton
Wanting to Die
"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort:with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
-Friedrich Nietzsehe
"...the air was cold and sad,the river dark and dim,the whole scene like a lifeless desert.
Waste forces within him,and a desert all around,this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace,and saw for a moment,a mirage of honorable ambition,self-denial,and perseverance.In the fair city of his vision,there were airy galleries from which loves and graces look upon him,gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening,water of Hope that sparkled in his sight.A moment,and it was gone."
-A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
"How could I've ever longed for amnesia?Memory- capricious and unreliable though it is,ultimately carries its own truth within it.As long as there is memory,there's always the possibility of retrieval,as long as there is memory,loss is never total."
-Small Remedies
Shashi Deshpande
"The Moving Finger writes;and,having writ,
Moves on:nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it."
-Omar Khayyam
"We,inIndia,think quickly,we talk quickly and when we move,we move quickly...Episode follows episode, and when our thoughts stop our breath stops, and we move on to another thought.This was and still is the ordinary style of our story-telling."
-Preface to Kanthapura
Raja Rao
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