"Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night."

-- James F. Cooper

#Death Quotes #Night Quotes #Iron Quotes

“Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.”
“I wish to God,â€ said Gideon with mild exasperation, â€œthat youâ€™d talkâ€”just onceâ€”in prose like other people.”
“Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.”
“Soul, if you want to learn secrets,â€¨ your heart must forget about shameâ€¨ and dignity. You are God's lover,â€¨ yet you worry what people are saying.”
“I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.”

Source : Song: Is That All There Is?, 2003
“Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.”

Source : Kate Braverman (2011). “Palm Latitudes: A Novel”, p.36, Seven Stories Press
“While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“People's perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

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