"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."

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Source : Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

Robert Southey

#Farewell Quotes #Loss Quotes #May Quotes

“Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.”
“Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.”

Source : "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science". The American Political Science Review Volume 21, Issue 1, February 1927.
“Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.”

Source : Nadia Comaneci (2009). “Letters to a Young Gymnast”, p.16, Basic Books
“The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.”
“Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
“I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.”
“There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.”
“My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.”

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