Cosmogonic Narratives Quotes

#1. In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations

Wasif Ali Wasif

#2. I say, indeed: "consolation in the nonsentience of nature." For nonsentience is consoling; the world of nonsentience is the world outside human life; it is eternity; "it is the sea gone off with the sun" (Rimbaud).

Milan Kundera

#3. You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room.

Alexandra Stoddard

#4. If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can't do it, you just may surprise yourself to see what you can do.

Frank Sonnenberg

#5. They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.

Richard Flanagan

#6. By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.

John Vaillant