"You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead."

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Source : Donald Hall (2007). “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Donald Hall

#Thinking Quotes #Dying Quotes #Worst Quotes

“We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own ***** oil.”
“What reality was ever made by realists?”

Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.32, Vintage
“I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'”
“Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes when we understand that as humans we all do the very best we can, and we can't ask for more than that. Forgiveness is making the choice to find no more value in anger, and to see that we are all God's light, all joined, and the separations we feel are only part of the illusions of the ego.”
“There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.”
“In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.”
“The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.
“In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.”

Source : Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

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