"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary" Mark Twain
"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost." Jean-Paul Sartre
"A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love, indifference and dislike; also of his race and nation, the soil that fed him and his forbears, the stones and sands of his familiar places, long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience, of the smiles of girls and the utterances of old women, of accidents and the gradual action of inexorble law, of all this and something else too, a single flame which in everyway obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself, and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next, and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come." A.S. Byatt
“Oh be quiet, you medieval gnome, and let them dance.” Tony Kushner, Angels in America
"Sweetest love, I do not go, for weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show, a fitter love for me." John Donne, Song
"Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men." John Donne, Divine Meditations 10
"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels." Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
"We've got to live no matter how many skies have fallen." D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover
"Don't be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horison your goal; it will always lie ahead of you." William Thackeray
"Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again." William Shakespeare, King Lear
A.S. Byatt - what now?? Love the Woolf one. For a chick who would later wander into a lake, she had a nice take on life.
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