fuck yeah, literary quotes

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.