3 Quotes Tagged: exaltation

Christopher couldn't recall what day it was; he certainly didn't know what hour it was. It was a gray day, but there was no dullness in that gray. It was shimmering pearl-gray, of a color bounced back by shimmering water and shimmering air. It was a crimson-edged day, like a gray squirrel shot and bleeding redly from the inside and around the edges. Yes, there was the pleasant touch of death on things, gushing death and gushing life.

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

...the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.