Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BC
Archive
Quotes
He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985A false report rides post.
—English proverbBy night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCThe history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019