Discernibly Turgid Quotes

#1. They locked gazes, showing their souls on the edge of their pupils, their melancholy and passionate souls, which death was unable to unite.

Marcel Proust

#2. The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term.

Margaret D. Klein

#3. The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

Jodi Picoult

#4. A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.

George Herbert

#5. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#6. High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Death is hereditary. Make sure you enjoy each day before it catches you.

Jill Shalvis

#8. They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman.

Daryl Wein