16 ratings (3.62 avg)
7 reviews

jmck

Add friend

jmck’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (16)

Stats | More…

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: fear, mortality

112 likes

“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

tags: experience, kindlehighlight, life-lessons

291 likes