SADE
"...the law, cold and aloof by its very nature, has no access to the passions that might justify the cruel act of murder."
SIGFRIED SASSOON
"You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go."
--"Suicide in the Trenches"
GEN. JOHN SEDGWICK
--Union Commander
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
(killed in battle during Civil War, d. 1864)
SENECA
"Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has
something for every age to investigate...Nature does
not reveal her mysteries once and for all."
CAT STEVENS
"Although you want to live forever,
You know you never will,
You know you never will,
And the good-bye makes the journey harder
still."
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
"For I dipped into the Future, far as human eye
could see; saw the vision of the world and all the
wonder that would be."
MARK TWAIN
"Be good [and] you will be loneseome."
LEONARDO DA VINCI
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did
not reach the quality it should have." (last words,
d. 1519)
VOLTAIRE
"Love is a canvass furnished by Nature and
embroidered by imagination."
ANDY WARHOL
"Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
Never doing it is exciting. The most exciting
atractions are between two opposites that never
meet."
VIRGINIA WOOLF
"I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we
can't go through another one of those terrible
times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to
hear voices." (suicide note, d. 1941)
