"Evil people do not further
the perseverance of the superior man.
The great departs; the small approaches."
-The Hexagram of Stagnation

"Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow

This is the way the world ends
with a bang but a whimper."

-T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, sections of verse V

"Du nuict viendra par la forest de Reines,
Deux pars, vaultorte, Herne la pierre blanche,
Le Moyne noir en gris dedans Varennes:
Esleu Cap. cause tempeste, feu, sang, tranche.
-Nostradamus

"I travelled through a land of men,
A land of men and women too,
And heard and saw such dreadful things
As cold earth wanderers never knew."
-William Blake, The Mental Traveller

"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends...".
-John 15:15, cited by the Gottesfreunde, the 'Friends of God', a group of pious nuns, priests and lay people who sought the mystic path of Christianity during the Middle Ages