Worldly Quotes (page 583)
![Walker Percy quote: "the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user..."](/pic/270945/600x316/quotation-walker-percy-the-origin-of-consciousness-is-the-initiation-of.jpg)
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
Emile M. Cioran
![Jane Austen quote: "That is the case with us all. One half of the world cannot..."](/pic/270777/600x316/quotation-jane-austen-that-is-the-case-with-us-all-one-half-of-the-world.jpg)
![Alan Paton quote: "He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but..."](/pic/270775/600x316/quotation-alan-paton-he-is-a-missionary-and-believes-in-god-intensely-i.jpg)
It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
Joseph Conrad
[Sam is kneeling beside Frodo's lifeless body in Shelob's lair, debating his next move] Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey -- for vengeance. If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. Then Gollum would die in a corner.
J. R. R. Tolkien