By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. - Shakespeare (MacBeth)

Morning came wanly, and the night-sounds ceased. - H P Lovecraft (The Dunwich Horror)

"No one can hear you scream...in the night...in the dark." - Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House)

"These walls," said he, "were once the seat of luxury and vice. They exhibited a singular instance of the retribution of Heaven, and were from that period forsaken, and abandoned to decay." His words excited my curiosity, and I enquired further concerning their meaning. - Ann Radcliffe (A Sicilian Romance)

He surveyed the vastness of the place, and as he contemplated its ruins, fancy bore him back to past ages. "And these walls," said he, "where once superstition lurked, and austerity anticipated an earthly purgatory, now tremble over the mortal remains of the beings who reared them!" - Ann Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest)

There was fear, and there was terror, And finally, in the dark, There was nothing at all. - Charles L Grant (The Old Men Know)

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity. All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. - Eccelsiastes 3:19 20

There are spirits that are created for vengeance, And in their fury they lay on grievous torments. - Ecclesiastes 39

Leave Hell�s secrets half unchanted to the maniac dreamers. - Percy Bethe Shelley (Prometheus Unbound)

Siddhartha to Govinda: "�, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people � eternal life." - Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

Siddhartha to Govinda: "It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world." - Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"I am going into the unity of all things," said Vasudeva. - Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. - Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

All phenomena in the world are nothing but the illusory manifestations of the mind and have no reality on their own. - Ashvaghosha (The Awakening Faith)

He who fights too long against Dragons becomes a dragon himself. - I Ching

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa

I am become death, destroyer of worlds. - The Bhagavad Gita

I write of things which I have neither seen nor suffered nor learned from another, things which are not and never have been� - Lucien of Samosata

There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality. - Albert Einstein

I am too skeptical to believe in the impossibility of anything. - Vernon Lee

One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. - William Hartnell

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences. - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson

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