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All you touch and all you see,
Is all your life will ever be.
- - - Pink Floyd, "Breathe"
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking.
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older.
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
- - - Pink Floyd, "Time"
Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
- - -Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon"
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you.
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new.
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more.
- - -Beatles "In My Life"
He not busy being born is busy dying.
- - - Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma"
i like a tombstone, cuz it weathers well,
and if it stands or if it crumbles, only time will tell.
and you can carve my name in marble, you must cut it deep;
there'll be no dancing on the gravestone, you must let me sleep.
---suzanne vega, "tombstone"
I want to stand with you on a mountain
I want to bathe with you in the sea
I want to lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me
- - -Savage Garden, "Truly Madly Deeply"
It's the heart afraid of dying, that never learns to dance;
It's the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance;
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give;
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.
- - - Bette Midler, "The Rose"
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue.
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view.
- - - Carole King "Tapestry"
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
- - - Elton John / Bernie Taupin
There are many here among us
who think life is but a joke
but you and I, we've been through that;
this is not our fate.
Let us not speak falsely now, the hour's getting late.
- - - Bob Dylan, "All Along the Watchtower"
Unforgettable, that's what you are
Unforgettable though near or far
Like a song of love that clings to me
How the thought of you does things to me
Never before has someone been more
Unforgettable in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, darling, it's incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am unforgettable too
- - - Irving Gordon, "Unforgettable"
When the top of the world
is below my breast;
My face lies softly against
watching angels-
Spirits of white dance around
until I roam- A hand
that revolves has no meaning-
I discover what is past and
what is meant to be-
Feelings I contain shout
visions before me-
Faces with no meaning, A
few screams or laughs-
Hush! All is silent- I now
occupy the shell of life...
Lesson 1
At least I've learned this much:
Life doesn't have to be
all poetry and roses. Life
can be bus rides, gritty sidewalks,
electric bills, dishwashing,
chapped lips, dull stubby pencils
with the erasers chewed off,
cheap radios played too loud,
the rank smell of stale coffee
yet still glow
with the inner fire of an opal,
still taste like honey.
-Julie Alger
Time whispers by like a calm breeze,
Time passes by secretly, unseen.
Time keeps us caged until it is ready to release us,
Time is faithful, time is ruthless.
Time is our friend, and our enemy,
Time is whatever we allow it to be.
Time is our constant shadow,
Time follows us wherever we go.
Time is free-roaming and knows no boundaries,
Time is the only constant in the universe.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility.
Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
- The Refuge of the Derelicts story, 1905
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely
to come of until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter
off his hands.
- The Turning Point of My Life
One cannot have everything the way he would like it. A man has no business
to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind
to get even.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
...when all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual
happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music,
and one cannot tell about music so that another person can get the feeling
of it.
- The Mysterious Stranger
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from
the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion
is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is
claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough
to add that new law to its code.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
- Life on the Mississippi
Spirit...has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle.
- "Saint Joan of Arc" essay, 1904
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't
know.
- Life on the Mississippi
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows
their full value.
- Notebook, 1902
