59 quotes found
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
“you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is...”
“It is hard to remember.Remember what?All that goes into the making of any one moment we live. There are things one must try to remember. Do you know what is the hardest thing to remember?No, Adam s...”
“Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not merely in experiencing history but in creating it can have no sense of destiny. And what kind of...”
“But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck with trying to find the meaning of our lives, and the only thing we have to work on, or with, is o...”
“Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.”
“Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as all being is but a flaw in the perfection of nonbeing. Which is God. For if God is perfection ...”
“If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.”
“For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered...”
“I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glittering and wavering in the heat and humming under the tires like a plucked nerve. I was doing seventy-...”
“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the moment when the dead must first feel truly alone. This was the mome...”
“. . . for meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that...”
“When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will...”
“There was the bulge and the glitter, and there was the cold grip way down in the stomach as though somebody had laid hold of something in there, in the dark which is you, with a cold hand in a cold...”
“It was always scary, Charlie replied, but that was why you did it, right? If it was safe... it wouldnt be fun.”
“The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”
“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.”
“(The law) is like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the bed and a cold night. There aint ever enough blanket to cover the case, no matter how much pulling and hauling, and som...”
“No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a double bed and three folks in the...”
“A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”
