#w

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#tea #warmth #winter #english

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#jesus-christ #knowing #balance

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#jane-austen #library

Walk with this tomorrow night. If nothing happens, then don’t come back. Forget about us, this place, but if you feel the Nightwalker in you awaken, then return to where you belong. Return to me, and the streets will run red with blood. ↗

— Keith Kekic

#dark-fantasy #gothic #horror #night #nightwalkers

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ↗

— Anais Nin

#ecstasy #i #images #joy #just

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ↗

— Anais Nin

#say #unable #writer

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. ↗

— Anais Nin

#child #confronted #created #father #fatherless

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. ↗

— John Oates

#retreat #strike #you

I don't think I could do a reality show, no. ↗

— Rita Ora

#i #reality #reality show #show #think

I like to work fast. ↗

— Jerry Orbach

#i #like #work