Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
From, On Loving of God, Paul Halsall trans., Ch. 11
“For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Essays in Radical Empiricism http://www.archive.org/stream/essaysinradicale00jameuoft/essaysinradicale00jameuoft_djvu.txt (1912), Ch. 12 : Absolutism and Empiricism <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Context: The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity, with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights … It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
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“Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Light propagates and spreads not only directly, through refraction, and reflection, but also by a fourth mode, diffraction.”
Lumen propagatur seu diffunditur non solum Directe, Refracte, ac Reflexe, sed etiam alio quodam quarto modo, Diffracte.
Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663) Italian physicist
Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride, aliisque adnexis libri duo: opus posthumum, published in Bologna (1665), http://books.google.com/books?id=FzYVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPP27,M1 Proposition I.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
“When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.”
Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer
Source: You Oughta Know By Now
“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.