"That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox . . ."

-- Stanislaw Lem

#Existence Quotes #Human Existence Quotes

“Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.”
“I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!”
“Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.”
“An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.”
“Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.”
“Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (2001). “Complete Writings”, p.147, Penguin
“I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had.”
“God is not identified with the world, for he made it; but God is not separate from His world, either. For He made it.”

Source : Joseph Sittler (1998). “The Structure of Christian Ethics”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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