Wayne Gray > Wayne 's Quotes

“As she wanders along the river like this, one hand on her hip and the other clutching a mark to defray her expenses, she is in well-known country.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether she will fall a prey to some wandering tramp—the sleepwalking of the infinite has seized upon her and never more will let her go.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“the irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“it is always he, unfortunate wretch, who assumes the rôle of executioner in the process of value-disintegration, and on the day when the trumpets of judgment sound it is the man released from all values who becomes the executioner of a world that has pronounced its own sentence.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“Everyone was getting married or falling in love. I was happy for them. Happy, happy, happy. I pasted a smile on my face and went to Piggly Wiggly.”
― Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse

“Even witches sing the blues,”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Ever After

“Look at the testimony of literature. In the days of chivalry our sympathies go with the Knight-errant, who redresses wrongs; with the King, whose courage and wisdom deliver his people from their enemies. But when Kingship became tyranny, and feudalism oppression, we took our heroes from the rebels. Robin Hood, Hereward the Wake, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Rob Roy; it was always the Under Dog that appealed to the artist.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Moonchild

“The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Moonchild

“Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan

“takes its colours from the mind, my dear friend;”—he said—“If you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, I fear, must be in your own nature.”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan

“no fame is actually worth much now-a-days,—because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity,—it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan

“all the best, greatest, purest and worthiest things in life are beyond all market-value and that the gifts of the gods are not for sale.”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan

“There never was a Christian save One, and He was crucified.”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan

“Man, as a purely natural creature, fairly educated, but wholly unspiritualized, is a mental composition of: Hunger, Curiosity, Self-Esteem, Avarice, Cowardice, Lust, Cruelty, Personal Ambition; and on these vile qualities alone our ‘society’ hangs together; the virtues have no place anywhere, and do not count at all, save as conveniently pious metaphors.”
― Marie Corelli, The Soul of Lilith

“Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“You take yourself with you, wherever you go.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Sure.” Through the windshield, Dan could see the Cowboy Boot patrons come and go, probably not talking of Michelangelo.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“This is his real domain,” muttered Hunter. “Things lost. Things forgotten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“And this other evening light, rainy, rose and silver, and to her left a river the color of cold lead. Dark tumble of city, towers in the distance, few lights.”
― William Gibson, The Peripheral

“So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn’t happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming anyway.”
― William Gibson, The Peripheral

“He will sweep it up—everything you left behind when you woke. And then he will burn it, to leave the stage fresh for your dreams tomorrow.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

“Aristotle states that only one thing could justify monarchy, and that was if the virtue of the king and his family were greater than the virtue of the rest of the citizens put together. Tactfully,”
― Aristotle, Complete Works, Historical Background, and Modern Interpretation of Aristotle's Ideas

“Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry?”
― Terrance Lane Millet, Greek Poems: A Story

“Everyday Oracles Gradations of a gospel Litter tabletops; Slops and guidance guessed From a dribble of wine, scried, Discussed, Scuttled in the dust. The grammar of gods loiter in the dregs, Axioms Of an afternoon assembly. ~ Rethymnon”
― Terrance Lane Millet, Greek Poems: A Story

“To put that statistic into personal terms, make a list of the nineteen people closest to you: All but one will die. (This”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God

“This inferno of contagion destroyed thousands of societies and millions of people, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from California to New England, from the Amazon rainforest to the tundra of Hudson Bay. It is what destroyed T1, the City of the Jaguar, and the ancient people of Mosquitia.”
― Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God

“and I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I’m not to have my rum now I’m a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island