Letter 4: Quotable Quotes

Posted by: Lee --- on: October 17, 2008

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Beware, the quotes submitted are made out of different people who I find insanely captivating and dangerous. If you find cannibalistic behavior shown, please don’t hesitate to send me a message. Thank you.

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If music be the food of love, play on – William Shakespeare

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

The most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions. – André Gide

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of people.
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living. -Bertrand Russell

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. – Another Country, 1962  of James Baldwin

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. – Elbert Hubbard

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that. – Charlotte, “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — too?
Then there’s a pair of us?
Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know! – Emily Dickenson

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen

 P.S. No animals and cannibals were harmed during the making of this post.

Signed,

Travis (Founder of the society called Crazy People)

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