"There are places where the Ocean has forgotten its name. There are places where the Hills do not know their own age. There are places where the tides of time do not touch, and have never touched. This is the place where things that are not, can be, and are.
There are Sentinels who watch over this Neverwhere. They remember all that can be, and will be, and they know the name of every Ocean across any world that ever dared to spark into existence from the minds of gods or mortals, and they know the age of all the Hills of the grandest vistas of dreams."

- Unknown


"She saw it once in a dream -- that place where the Old Ones went to die. They do not die like humans or horses or mice, and such beings who experienced but mortal deaths. There is such a thing as immortal death, curious as that may sound, and that is what the Old Ones go to when their time arrives. It is not a death of frailty and decay. Theirs is a death of wondrous renewal. Their life does not fade. They do not grasp for the fleeing minutes and seconds of lives that are too short. They have time, for they are older than a human mind can conceive of. They remember Rome. They remember Atlantis. They remember far beyond. And only when they are ready, do they will life away, with the sonorous force of their being. And from their remains the forests of the otherworld spring to life.... It was this otherworld that she glimpsed in her dream, and the sight of it made her cry though she could not understand why."

- Unknown


"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

- Nietzsche


"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

- Bilbo Baggins


"Even if your on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Unknown


"Intelligence is an illusion - knowledge is everything... Relevance? I've never heard of such.."

- Unknown


"Its nice to be important, But its more important to be nice."

- Unknown


"The mystery of life is not a problem
to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

- Aart van der Leeuw


"Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested."

- Francis Bacon


"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not kicking and
screaming like the people in his car."

- Bumper Sticker


"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

- A. Sachs


"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

- Henry Van Dyke


"Sleep is a death; oh, make me try
By sleeping what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave as now my bed!"

- Sir Thomas Browne


"Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be
declared brain dead."

- Erma Bombeck


"We are not enemies, but friends.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.  The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart."

- Abraham Lincoln


"We wait for light, but behold darkness."

- Isaiah 59:9


"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - yet it is the most precious thing we have."

- Albert Einstein


"Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvelous is strongly concerned.  When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified."

- Thomas Henry Huxley


"As children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror"

- Lucretius


"There are demon-haunted worlds, regions of utter darkness."

- The Isa Upanishad


"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which every one in
himself calleth religion."

- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan


"A credulous mind...finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such."

- Samuel Butler


"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.  Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

- Sherlock Holmes


"True memories seemed like phantoms, while false memories were so convincing that they replaced reality."

- Gabrial Caria Marquez


"Magic, it must be remembered, is an art which demands collaboration between the artist and his public."

- E. M. Butler


"The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceed sciences which may be called 'sciences as one would.' For a man had rather were true he more readily believes.  Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper
things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar.   Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infest understanding."

- Francis Bacon