Sourced and curated.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979

★ 1.0

Obituary · Magazine

It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Life Magazine · 1995

★ 1.0

Scripture · Religious literature

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Hosea, 8:7

710 BC

★ 1.1

For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.

Thomas Wyatt

1557

★ 1.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; They kill us for their sport.

King Lear · 1606

★ 1.1

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 1.2

Play

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

1862

★ 1.3

Personal journal

Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

1519

★ 1.4

Philosophical literature

We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials.

Otto Neurath

1921

★ 1.7

Philosophical literature

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Charles Sanders Peirce

1966

★ 1.7

Scripture · Religious literature

Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Luke 15:6

★ 1.8

There's an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There's Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown, Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

Thomas Flatman

1682

★ 1.8

Personal journal

There is always something spiritual about the approach of winter. You retire into your innermost chambers and camp near the small glow you find there.

Paul Klee

★ 1.8

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.

Philip Sidney

1593

★ 1.9

Play · History (play)

The saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

Henry V · 1599

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

Antony and Cleopatra · 1607

★ 1.9

Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain; The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain.

John Clare

1841

★ 1.9

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather Resemble copper wire, or brass, Which gets the narrower by going farther!

Thomas Hood

1845

★ 1.9

Magazine

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every Man His Own Boswell · 1858

★ 1.9

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

Malcolm Lowry

1947

★ 1.9

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

Kamo no Chomei

1212

★ 1.9

History (play)

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

1597

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Perfection is the child of Time.

All's Well that Ends Well · 1616

★ 1.9

Joseph Hall

1625

★ 1.9

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

1656

★ 1.9

What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul.

Joseph Addison

1711

★ 1.9

What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?

Thomas Gray

1748

★ 1.9

Day her sultry fires had wasted. Calm and sweet the moonlight rose.

Thomas Campbell

1800

★ 1.9

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1834

★ 1.9

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age — Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Bronte

1835

★ 1.9

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1850

★ 1.9

Poem · Children's literature

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe- Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.

Eugene Field

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod · 1889

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine · Modernist literature

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

James Joyce

The Egoist · 1915

★ 1.9