Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment. Dean Koontz, Watchers

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Ziggy Marley

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. oscar wilde,...

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. Zora Neale Hurston, “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism….And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract….all of...

Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free). Major Rudolph Hoss, Auschwitz Gate

We are what we love, not what loves us. Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation

I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man. Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.