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“Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines”.

- Claude McKay

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.


Emily Bronte

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“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

- George Orwell

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“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”

Oscar Wilde

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“It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster”

- Robertson Davies

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So many good choices with 'monster' in them...

"Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”

- Bette Davis

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.


C. S. Lewis

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“The only cure for grief is action.”

- G. H. Lewes

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"By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Theodore Bikel