Paroxysmal Quotes

#1. New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

Michel De Certeau

#2. I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future ... I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...

Glenda Millard

#4. All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#5. Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I know that while I care for him deeply, he could never break my heart. For my heart rests in no one's hands but my own now.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#7. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear.

Eckhart Tolle

#8. The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people's fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies.

Kilroy J. Oldster