"You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive."

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Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

Jack Gilbert

#Running Quotes #Pain Quotes #Real Quotes

“But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.”
“When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.”
“The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.”
“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”
“You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.”

Source : "Author Jonathan Evison on loss, survival and life's epic journeys". Interview with Mary Ann Gwinn, www.seattletimes.com. September 24, 2012.
“One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.”
“Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord.”

Source : Song: Everlasting God, Album: Everlasting God, 2006
“Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?”

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