merciless quotes

we flounder, the air ungainly in our new lungs with sunlight streaming merciless on the shores of morning

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  The Circle Game,'Pre- Amphibian'.

It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a mercilessthing.Ithink life is a process of burning oneself out and timeisthefirethat burnsyou.But Ithink thespirit of man is a good adversary.

-TennesseeThomas Lanier Williams
  In the NewYork Post, 30 Apr.