Clouds Quote by Marquis de Sade

“They felt that everything was fleeting, that everything wore out, that everything that was not dead would die, and that even the illusory ties…

— Henri Barbusse

The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet…

— Thomas Jefferson

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond…

— Antonin Artaud

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them…

— Diane Setterfield

“In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Perhaps we…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I was encouraged to ask in all seriousness what this life is for, what matters most for myself and others, what non-negotiable values I…

— Stephen Batchelor

“without hope, what is to sustain life, but the fear of annihilation—the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread—I cannot bear…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Their souls—or maybe just our memories of them—belong to that place which even the dead can only dream of, the miraculous place from which…

— Michael Haley

“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by…

— Gabriel García Márquez

The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

— Edgar Morin

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing…

— Robert Southey