Tag: man

… and we were hemmed in for winter …

By now, we guessed we were not two ordinary river travelers …

… the river that was extraordinary: a marvel that protected us by the same mysterious action

that had given a common horse wings

and changed a woman into a laurel tree.

– Norman Lock –

Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze!

Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

– Herman Melville – Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

– Joseph Campbell –

Let the flames take over our bodies …

And we can dance until we become ashes,

but don’t you dare leave me when we

become pointless dust.

Because this is when we can

finally blow away with the wind,

back to that place where love

was once real…

– Michael Biondi –

When anything is blocking my head or there’s worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don’t see the fear. You don’t see the pain. You don’t see thought. It’s just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn’t…

– Heath Ledger –