Ancestors Quote by Tess Gerritsen

“Here, in the vast expanse of nothingness, one confronts the depths of their own existence, unburdened by the trappings of modern life.”

— Ryan Gelpke

“It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.”

— Justin Cronin

“...everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess...the scattered moments of kinship we feel with others are, when reduced to their most basic elements,…

— Joel Derfner

“They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way…

— Ann Brashares

“Ancestors from all times have shared their essence with you. Accept the light and let go of the rest.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“At times in life, we turn and look back not to see the dust we've created but the foot print we;re living behind for…

— Anthony Nyuiemedy-Adiase

“And we were all of us alone, clinging to a rock spinning through the star-strewn darkness and trying desperately to matter. To make some…

— Joe Ducie

“Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have…

— Carl Gustav Jung

“We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into…

— David Levithan

“We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut off or…

— Mark Nepo

“For centuries we have been ripped apart by the hands of others as well as ourselves. Our personalities have been conditioned to become disconnected…

— Dacha Avelin

“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