John > John's Quotes

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Though one were strong as seven,
He too with death shall dwell,
Nor wake with wings in heaven,
Nor weep for pains in hell;
”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Garden of Proserpine

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Invictus

“At 13:57 local time, a low yield nuclear warhead exploded in the city of Chongjin, North Korea.

A long standing military target. Chongjin is home to some 532,000 men, women, and children.

This city has survived a number of wars. It will not survive this.

But her people will.

As 13:57 and .00001 microseconds, half a million Koreans seemed to materialize on a hilltop 35 miles away from the blast.

They were carried there . . .

One at a time, sometimes two . . .

At a hair's breadth short of the speed of light . . .

By one man . . .

The Flash. The Fastest Man Alive.”
― Joe Kelly, JLA, Vol. 14: Trial by Fire

“I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon