Quotes

"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. ~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!" ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "To be, or not to be,--that is the question:--whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. ~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. ~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley