Blackshaw Moor Quotes

#1. The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.

Wallace Stevens

#2. More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.

Lev Shestov

#3. It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Benjamin E. Mays

#4. God's 'failures' are really man's failures ...

Taylor Caldwell

#5. My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?

Steve Wynn

#6. Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#8. Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll Grayson would be my maid/man of honor. Alaska and Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines and Let it Snow would be my best friends. In short- you can't go wrong with John Green. Ever.

Emma Crape

#9. I run to get out, when I have been stuck inside, reading to escape from life, not even able to sit up straight in my tiny bunk. I run to feel like I am doing something, when I am overwhelmed by all the things I can't do anything about.

Jay Allison

#10. The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Alan Lightman