"When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment."

-- Robert Silverberg

#Dying Quotes #Fleeting Quotes #Vitality Quotes

“Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.”
“All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.”
“One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.”
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”
“We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.”
“The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.”
“Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.”
“That world is growing in this minute.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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