"A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it."

-- Robert Cormier

#Mother Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Way Quotes

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana) I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”
“That wasn't your mom in youâ€”that was your dad.”
“Marijuana has killed far fewer people than swimming pools; itâ€™s the war against it that does all the violence.”
“I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.”
“That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.”

Source : Alice Miller (1981). “Prisoners of Childhood”, New York : Basic Books
“Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.”

Source : "Charles H. Townes: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting -or he'll come along and nibble your brain.”

Source : "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.
“Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.”

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