“The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.”

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.”

“as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul.”

“A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.”

“A soul cannot survive or meet its destiny until it has been shattered.If blessed, the soul of the surviving will become Shattered Into Beautiful” —Mel Ballew”

“For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.”