Maddening Crowds Know Only Mastication (just ask Hardy)

"The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection." (redux)

"How helpless they all looked in the ugliness of sleep. A third of life spent unconscious and corpselike."

"Some, the great majority, stumbled through their waking hours scarcely more awake, helpless in the face of destiny."

"They stumbled down a dark alley toward their deaths."

"They sent exploring feelers into the light and met fire and writhed back again into the darkness of their blind groping."

"The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair."