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Together we all live every moment

On the very brink;

The razor’s edge

Of ecstasy or disaster.

– Scott Hastie –

And I asked myself about the present:

how wide it was, how deep it was,

how much was mine to keep.

– Kurt Vonnegut –

Ph : Steven Klein –

I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

– Chaim Potok – The Chosen

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended … in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

– Lawrence Durrell –

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

– Oscar Wilde –

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

– Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending

… but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.

– Jean-Paul Sartre –