90 quotes found
“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”
“Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain...”
“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”
“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing phenomenon which bursts into all kinds of emotions, like a flame ...”
“Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.”
“I Dont Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I dont know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I dont know that I wouldnt deny my Christ, if I had...”
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a fu...”
“The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.”
“A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.”
“Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of ones worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.”
“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall retur...”
“Hence, in a season of calm weatherThough inland far we be,Our souls have sight of that immortal sea”
“The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.”
“A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
“A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?”
“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything mor...”
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
“Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortalthere's the trick!”
