"Learn the topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out."
-R.A. Lafferty, The Devil Is Dead
'This thing is a man. Look at what you are, and what awaits you. Gaze on this image and learn what your own end will be.'
-grave epitaph in Greece
In the end you will submit-
It's got to hurt a little bit.
-New Order, "Perfect Kiss"
Come with me on wings of dream. I can take you anywhere you want to go, - would you like to have dinner with Marlene Dietrich? Sip cappucino on the canals of Mars? Walk with me through Elysian Fields? I promise to have you back before you wake.
-Wraith: The Oblivion, Phantasm section
"Do you trust me?" I asked here. "Do you want to see beyond the darkness?" She nodded slowly and took my hand...
-Wraith: The Oblivion, Argos section
What a piece of work is man!"
-Shakespeare, Hamlet
"I always try to do six impossible things before breakfast."
-The Red Queen, Alice In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
"Say good-bye to all this... and hello to oblivion."
-Riff Raff, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
'Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.'
-Edward Young, Nice Thoughts
"It's not the tale; it's he who tells it."
-Peter Straub, Ghost Story
"Black wind come carry me far away."
Sisters of Mercy, "Temple of Love"
Step on a crack, break your mother's back...
-Childhood saying (taken from Wraith: The Oblivion)
There is a dreadful Hell,
And everlasting pains;
There sinners must with devil's dwell
In darkness, fire, & chains.
-Isaac Watts, Divine and Moral Songs for Children
He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful or sublime...means nothing.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light...I do not go gentle into that good night..."
Quotes
"Learn the topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out."