The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
–
Terry Pratchett,
Moving Pictures
I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.
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C.L. Cagan
After a Retreat
What hast thou learnt today
Hast thou sounded awful mysteries,
Hast pierced the veiled skies,
Climbed to the feet of God,
Trodden where saints have trod,
Fathomed the heights above
Nay,
This only have I learnt, that God is love.
What hast thou heard today
Hast heard the Angel-trumpets cry,
And rippling harps reply;
Heard from the Throne of flame
Whence God incarnate came
Some thund’rous message roll
Nay,
This have I heard, His voice within my soul.
What hast thou felt today
The pinions of the Angel guide
That standeth at thy side
In rapturous ardours beat
Glowing, from head to feet,
In ecstasy divine
Nay,
This only have felt, Christ’s hand in mine.
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Robert Hugh Benson
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
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Chuck Palahniuk,
Fight Club
I don’t know who had the training of you,’ he continued doggedly, ‘but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I’m going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I’ll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.
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Loretta Chase,
Viscount Vagabond
we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be
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Seneca,
Letters from a Stoic
…food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die.
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Joshua Donellan,
Zeb and the Great Ruckus
He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden’s kisses for this They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.
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Annette Curtis Klause,
Blood and Chocolate
Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you ve left their presence.
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Mollie Marti
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that Look at Olson, he’s worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he’s as fresh as a daisy. I don’t think I can do that. I’m not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be.’ The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness ‘And I think… when I get tired enough… I think I’ll just sit down
–
Stephen King,
The Long Walk
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