Quote From a Book

officerripley said:
2nd time I've posted this but feel the need for it again:

"If you tell enough little boys that they should get everything they desire, eventually one of them will have desires so fierce they collapse in on themselves and become a superdense gravity well, drawing everything to themselves."
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Yes, but seems to me a question for our times is whether the oligarchic autocrats like the process of everything being 'drawn to themselves'? (Thinking here of a type of person, no specific autocrat in particular. 🙂)
 

I don't even believe this way, but this dark quote has always haunted me:

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I don't even believe this way, but this dark quote has always haunted me:

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." ~ Vladimir Nabokov
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Yes, it was not a healthy, carefree mind that dreamed up that remark
 

"You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not."

~~from All the Children are Home by Patry Francis
 
The phrase "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," is from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem: "In Memoriam A.H.H."
It expresses the idea that the experience of love, even with the pain of loss, is more valuable than never having loved at all. This sentiment suggests that the joy and connection found in love, though temporary, outweigh the suffering that can come with its ending.

Tennyson's articulate observation is my antidote in bereavement.
 
officerripley said:
"You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not."

~~from All the Children are Home by Patry Francis
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We're born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. --Orson Welles
 

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