Time Quote by Steven Brust

“Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small a bound.…

— William Shakespeare

“What is thy body but a swallowing grave, Seeming to bury that posterity Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have If…

— William Shakespeare

“We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so ’tis easy for us to…

— Jonathan Edwards

“And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall…

— Compton Gage

“How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thing may not be invisibly and uninterpenetratingly standing precisely where thou now standest; aye, and…

— Herman Melville

“Place thy foot upon thy slave, Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams; Among the shadows, dark and grave, Thy extended body softly…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World’s strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors…

— Jonathan Edwards

“If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our…

— Charles Spurgeon

“What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet…

— Voltaire