Lionel Johnson quotes

Lionel Johnson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.”
“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake”
“Literature is the immortality of speech.”
“The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.”
“Only youth has a taste of immortality.”
“I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.”

Source : Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.
“Men are immortal till their work is done.”
“This life is but the childhood of our immortality.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan

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