Author: Philip Meyer

Cites

• Edward Gibbon (1)
  • IN: The Son (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind... ... its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown Barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa. ... the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works... buries empires and cities in a common grave.
    FROM: The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, (1789), Book, UK
• Søren Kierkegaard (1)
  • IN: American Rust (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If there were no eternal consciousness in a man... if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
    FROM: Fear and Trembling, (1843), Book, Denmark
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: American Rust (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.
    FROM: The Plague, (1947), Novel, France