Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962
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One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCWhat is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCWhat hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCThese useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812