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Quotes

  1. "All these moment will be lost in time like tears in the rain." -- Blade Runner (1982)
  2. For if your resolve is serious and for eternity, then you will give yourself entirely to your work and turn your back on your destination.
  3. For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline -- 2 Timothy 1:7
  4. "Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them" -- Hamlet (1600)
    • Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin recites Hamlet's soliloquy to his dinner
  5. "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." -- Brave New World (1932)
    • ""In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy. [...] "All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.""
    • "independence was not made for man-that it is an unnatural state"
    • "But my own experience has given me the conviction that, quite apart from any such terrors or imaginings, the religious sentiment tends to develop as we grow older; to develop be- cause, as the passions grow calm, as the fancy and sensibilities are less excited and less excitable, our reason becomes less troubled in its working, less obscured by the images, desires and distractions, in which it used to be absorbed; whereupon God emerges as from behind a cloud; our soul feels, sees, turns towards the source of all light; turns naturally and inevitably; for now that all that gave to the world of sensations its life and charms has begun to leak away from us, now that phenomenal existence is no more bolstered up by impressions from within or from without, we feel the need to lean on something that abides, something that will never play us false-a reality, an abso- lute and everlasting truth. Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this re- ligious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses."
    • "If you allowed yourselves to think of God, you wouldn't allow your- selves to be degraded by pleasant vices. You'd have a reason for bear- ing things patiently, for doing things with courage."