‘. . . in your days of gladness bear in mind
the unknown evil forging on behind!’

Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

‘...you’ll never find your heart in a temple unless you first find a temple in your heart...’
Someone...

‘...death is always lurking behind your left shoulder...’ Castaneda

‘I am the self consumer of my woes’
John Clare

‘...we’re all going to hell in a hand basket...’
My Hillbillie friends

‘Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth,
[Thrall to] these rebel pow’rs that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?’
William Shakespeare


‘Simply put, we are displaced people wandering
aimlessly in the desert of our minds.’
Dr Ihaleakala Hew Len

‘I often feel like a lost fart in a thunderstorm...’
My most beloved ex-wife...

‘Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes’
Jean Racine

‘People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy’
Stephen Rea

‘To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow...’
Macbeth

‘ Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so’
David Grayson

‘ There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness’
Carl Jung