Barry Neil Kaufman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  • Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

  • Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

  • He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

  • Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

  • I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?

  • I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!

  • I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

  • He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

  • Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.