And so to bed

My regular collection of night time quotes on Facebook.

And so to bed.,.. quote for tonight is from Julie Murphy:

Sometimes catastrophes split you in half and even if all the pieces are there, they might not ever fit back together.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Alysha Speer:

You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

And so to bed... quote for tonight from Erich Maria Remarque:

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Barack Obama:

So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. It's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough, but in fact is born of fear. John McCain called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that.

That's perhaps how we honor him best, by recognizing that there are some things bigger than party or ambition or money or fame or power, that there are some things that are worth risking everything for. Principles that are eternal. Truths that are abiding.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from William Shakespeare (The Tempest):

Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd,
I cried to dream again