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"Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."
~Francis Bacon, Essays
The Haven
"The world loves a spice of wickedness."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
Ava Detourne
"Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are."
~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
Salvatore Donetti
"The smiler with the knife under the cloak."
~Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Jade Lau
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
Andrew Natana
"There is nothing left of me but honor, and my life, which is saved."
~Francis I of France, letter [to his mother after the Battle of Pavia, 1525]
Nadia Donetti
"There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!"
~John Dryden, The Spanish Friar
Robert McKay
"Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we
sleep."
~John Milton, Paradise Lost
Kylea Beaumont
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
~Charles Fisher, in Newsweek
Damian Vardek
"Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies."
~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Celeste Vardek
"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."
~John H. Holmes, The Sensible Man's View of Religion
Nettle
"Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of [her] time but most people are far behind theirs."
~Edgard Varèse, quoted in New York Herald Tribune
Marco Caravelli
"Let's find out what everyone is doing,
And then stop everyone from doing it."
~A.P. Herbert, "Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something!"
Cheyenne Draven
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
~Anne Frank, diary entry (1944)(Diary of a Young Girl)
Jory Coburn
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
~Albert Camus, Notebooks
Contess Duvessa
"Necessity gives the law, but does not itself submit to it."
~Publilius Syrus, Maxims
Ophelia de Marco
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it, and thought of other things if you did."
~James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
Dark Dance Between Two Ancients
"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure."
~Lord Byron,Don Juan
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