Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.

Creed

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

Doomsday Book

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Decreation

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

The Drop That Became the Sea: Lyric Poems

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Dracula

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Divergent

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

La realidad objetiva es la construcción sintética, que trata con una hipotética universalización de multitud de realidades subjetivas.

The Electric Ant

The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.

The Exiled Heart: A Meditative Autobiography

I have no words — alas! — to tell The loveliness of loving well!

Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Ethics

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Ethics

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

Eurydice in the Underworld

...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

Flight Behavior

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

Fidelity

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

My night shall be remembered for a star That outshone all the suns of all men's days

Great Lover

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

The Guermantes Way