Precipice

People were good at imagining hell, and some
they occupied while they were alive.
- Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Pilgrims

"When the great earth, abandoning day, rolls up the deep of the heavens and the universe, a new door opens for the human spirit, and there are few so clownish that some awareness of the mystery of being does not touch them as they gaze. For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time. Fugitive though the instant may be, the spirit of man is, during it, ennobled by a genuine moment of emotional dignity, and poetry makes it own both the human spirit and experience."
- "The Outermost House", Henry Beston

Flesh & Bone

"What's the first article of faith?

That this is not all that we are."

Nutshell

Story of my life:

"He never knew what to say. If life was a party, he wasn't even in the kitchen."
- Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Useless Prophecies

Futility

"...they are about to graduate, they are about to get married, they are kids, they are dumb, all they know is they are innocent, they would never hurt anybody.

I want to go up to them and say Stop, don't do it - she's the wrong woman, he's the wrong man, you are going to do things you cannot imagine you would ever do, you are going to do bad things to children, you are going to suffer in ways you never heard of, you are going to want to die. I want to go up to them there in the late May sunlight and say it, her pretty blank face turning to me, her pitiful beautiful untouched body, his arrogant handsome blind face turning to me, his pitiful beautiful untouched body, but I don't do it. I want to live.

I take them up like the male and female paper dolls and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint as if to strike sparks from them, I say...

I say, do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it."


- Into The Wild