Alex Patterson > Alex's Quotes

“Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate...but with his other hand he can jot down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different and more things than the others; after all, he is dead in his own lifetime and the real survivor.”
― Franz Kafka

“The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Thinking is my fighting.”
― Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

“Four days ago: he'd stood on the front porch of his home in the deep blue hollow of early morning, watching the waters of the Gulf roll onto the beach. It was his favorite time of day: that sweet, lonesome hinge between darkness and daylight, when he could pretend he was alone in the world and free to take it on his own terms.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters

“Feminazi', 'TERF', 'bitch', 'witch'. Times change. Woman-hate is eternal.”
― J.K. Rowling

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.”
― G. M. Trevelyan