"In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed."

-- Leo Rosten

#Book Quotes #Dark Quotes #Night Quotes

“If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.”
“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
“Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.”

Source : robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”
“I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”
“It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”

Source : Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.21, Random House
“Ro trails his hands against the wall as he walks. The archivists look at him as he passes. Ro is good at irritating people; he'll find the one thing you don't want him to do, and do it every time. It's one of his many gifts.”

Source : Margaret Stohl (2013). “Icons”, p.124, Hachette UK
“Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.”

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