And all in you is youth, and you make new,
By quoting them, old things I made for you.
John Shade, in Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (Canto Four)

Hereunder are collected a variety of striking quotations that I have stumbled across in my reading, grouped loosely by topic. Click any of the headings below to go to a page of quotations on that topic, or use the convenient search feature. 

Contents

Aphorism and Epigrams

Cosmic Horror

Creativity and Intuition

Cynicism

Human Nature

Imagery and Favorite Lines

Immortality

Jane Austen

The Macabre

Mysticism

On Writing

Personal Path

Romanticisms

Science and Knowledge

William Blake