Mind Quote by Greg Egan

“Often the first step in our own resurrection is realizing how dead we really are.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign to him.…

— Albert Camus

“The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.”

— Loren Eiseley

“Deep in his heart, man aspires to rejoin the condition he had before consciousness. History is merely the detour he takes to get there.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the…

— Lauren Groff

“He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his…

— Julie Orringer

“He thinks one’s life can be distilled to a narrative that has a beginning and an end. He knows nothing about the kind of…

— Kristin Hannah

“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead…

— Mark Twain

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“The past was something that had happened to another version of himself, a version that could be lit and hurled away.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“The resurrection produces a “conversion of the imagination” that causes us to understand everything else differently.”

— Ellen F. Davis