Friday Quote by Tao Lin

“For who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity to perish rather, swallowed up and lost…

— John Milton

“I walked far down a dirt side road and into a farmer's field - some sort of cereal that was chest high and corn…

— Douglas Coupland

“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother…

— Salman Rushdie

“We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an…

— Isaac Asimov

“And when he was suddenly gone -- no, not just gone, dead in every possible meaning of the word to me because of what…

— Benjamin R. Smith

“This was the history of the world. Recovery and collapse, despair and relief. The dialectic of clean and dirty. Every time is worse than…

— Jerry Stahl

“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading – treading – till it seemed That Sense was breaking…

— Emily Dickinson

“And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and…

— Ken Wilber

“We were raised in a world where there is no light, no truth and worse, the inability to voice our pain, our fears and…

— L. Filloon

“Things vanished. People vanished. Clouds gave way to sun gave way to night. Only feelings, like spirits, endured, branded to the back of our…

— Alan Heathcock

“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however, we meet…

— Henry Miller

“People who didn’t have deep feelings never experienced deep joy or deep pain. They lived in a trivial, pale shadow of life where nothing…

— Mark Nolan