Author: David Hewson

Cites

• Søren Kierkegaard (1)
  • IN: The Killing II (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward.
    FROM: Journals IV A 164 (1843), (1843), Book, Denmark
• Cicero (1)
  • IN: The Killing (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non nobis solum nati sumus. We are not born for ourselves alone.
    FROM: De Officiis (Book I, sec. 22), (-44), Book, Italy
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: The Seventh Sacrament (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Mithras, God of the Midnight, here where the great bull dies, Look on thy children in darkness. O take our sacrifice! Many roads thou hast fashioned: all of them lead to the Light, Mithras, also a soldier, teach us to die aright!
    FROM: A Song to Mithras: Hymn of the XXX Legion, (1906), Poem, UK
• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: Dante's Numbers (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
    FROM: The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto I., (1472), Poem, Italy
• Julius Caesar (2)
  • IN: City of Fear (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Men willingly believe what they wish.
    FROM: De Bello Gallico, Book III, Chapter 18, (-49), Book, Italy
  • IN: The Blue Moon (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Men willingly believe what they wish.
    FROM: De Bello Gallico, Book III, Ch. 18, (-49), Book, Italy
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Solistice (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence… an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
    FROM: King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2, (1608), Play, UK
• Leonardo da Vinci (1)
  • IN: The Flood (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
    FROM: Leonardo's Notebooks, (1174), Book, Italy
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
  • IN: The Fallen Angel (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...while I was painting her I felt all the time as if she were trying to escape from my gaze. She knows that her sorrow is so strange and so immense, that she ought to be solitary forever, both for the world's sake and her own; and this is the reason we feel such a distance between Beatrice and ourselves, even when our eyes meet hers. It is infinitely heartbreaking to meet her glance, and to feel that nothing can be done to help or comfort her; neither does she ask help or comfort, knowing the hopelessness of her case better than we do. She is a fallen angel -- fallen, and yet sinless; and it is only this depth of sorrow, with its weight and darkness, that keeps her down upon earth, and brings her within our view even while it sets her beyond our reach.
    FROM: The Marble Faun, (1859), NULL, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Blue Moon (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL