quotes for death of a loved one

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. ~Bertrand Russell, What I Believe, 1925



I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned! ~Author Unknown



Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I bear a little more than I can bear. ~Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Angels and Earthly Creatures. One Person. Sonnet XVI



Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown



The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown



America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891



Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown



A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives



If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky



The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. ~Author Unknown



I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham



Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks



Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. ~Mohandas Gandhi



Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ~Hans Margolius



It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken. ~Aristotle



My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit. ~Jerry Hall



But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge. ~Philip Massinger, Fatal Dowry, 1632