"Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs."

-- Philip Larkin

#Running Quotes #Eye Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.”
“We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.”
“Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.”
“If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.”
“The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!”
“I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.”
“Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.”
“All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (1958). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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