What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident, ' I whisper. 'So may you all.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

Love for me is the most sophisticated form that one can give for his desire, may be the only faith is remarkable on human being.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty. But is that any reason to eat your grandmother?

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.