"you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -mark twain

"there seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences." -jane austen

"rage, rage against the dying of the light." -dylan thomas

"this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." -ts eliot