Dariam Coco Quotes

#1. I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.

Libba Bray

#2. The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

Matthew McConaughey

#4. We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

Emile M. Cioran

#6. While madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. A fierce resolve that we would not lose what we had now to what we could not have tomorrow.

Robin Hobb

#8. What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

Catherine The Great

#9. A false ring of the night bell, once answered - it can never be made right.

Franz Kafka

#10. If you did not want so much, there was plenty.

Harper Lee

#11. Where there is life, George, there is still hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#13. What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.

Leopold Sedar Senghor