Exit Rostov Quotes

“Worse still is not the quick fire destruction, but instead the smouldering decay of endless days, lost in a lifeless, thoughtless, meandering of day to day.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“As if she had a magnetic force around her, I felt I was being caught up in the twisting vortex of her complex being, heading for collision like a comet being drawn into her unstable atmosphere.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“Without love, one is dust, in a perpetual state of longing and desire.

No matter how much you love someone, if the feeling isn’t mutual, love will have no reception.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“He also had another analogy of refuting God. One’s identity is supported like a house of cards. The layer upon layer of delicately balanced playing cards are like the structure of one’s previous prayers. They are the supports which God has granted and enabled. For every time one has lain prostrate on the floor, with one’s forehead on the ground, crying for God’s help, for one’s self, for one’s family and friends, in one’s darkest moments, pleading with the Lord, begging for mercy, and when the Lord hears, when the prayer is answered, the terror is averted and another layer of cards is constructed in delicate balance to create the next layer.
One’s foundations are built on these episodes, based on the mercy of the Lord. Woe be it if the foundations are removed.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“How terrible and foul to squander time by seeking money. What could be worse than giving up your existence to earn such filthy lucre?

Look at the poverty here. You die if you don’t have dollars.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“There is a network beneath the surface of our consciousness in which a far more powerful force flows.

These intimations of the underlying knowledge, these intimations of the soul, of the Divine, are vital for the survival of humankind.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“Everything relies on the idea. The idea is paramount. The idea is all powerful.

Art is the vanguard of developments in thoughts and ideas.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov

“It’s that feeling like vertigo of being on the edge of the precipice, suffering the fear of the void into which one might fall.

We are damnedly balanced on the thread, with the great voluminous despair beneath us and the terrible fate of knowing that the love of beauty can never be satisfied.”
― Henry Virgin, Exit Rostov