Emily Prager famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  • I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.

  • Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

  • And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

  • Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  • suffering is the essence of success!!!

  • posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

  • We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  • The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

  • are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?