"I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead."

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Source : FaceBook post by Peter Carey from May 23, 2013

Peter Carey

#Stars Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Space Quotes

“Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!”
“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.”
“I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.”
“There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.”
“Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.”

Source : Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.141, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.”
“The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.”
“But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?”

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