Antemortal Christ Quotes

#1. Once in a while, though, he could not help seeing how shallow, fickle, and meaningless all human aspirations are, and how emptily our real impulses contrast with those pompous ideals we profess to hold.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.

Julia London

#3. The powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is.

Stephen King

#4. You should have had the decency to die when you needed to."
"Sorry," I admitted. "I've been going through a bit of a rebellious streak. I swear it's almost over.

Ally Carter

#5. Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#6. We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us

John Boyne

#7. precisely because she was

Elizabeth Lowell

#8. Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.

John Locke