"I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames."

-- Antonin Artaud

#Flames Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Burning Quotes

“The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press
“Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.”
“It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.”
“Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.”
“A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.”
“Don't look back! For a bright future is ahead of you.”
“The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.”
“While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.”

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