All - Quotes
My heart is still bathed in the fierce sun of passion,
All spring is in bloom there, by spring breezes tossed,
But look how my hair turns hoary and ashen,
Its raven black touched by the premature frost.
It`s too late... With all hope extinguished
in Death`s ice-hut shall we two be brought
to hug in final sum.
All of God's creation with timechanges and surely ends,
Only my love like the fires of hell
has no end, for it is burningly burns.
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understands reality?
Desire - and all concede it -
kills all who are not dead.
But happiness, you need it
as you need daily bread.
All you arrive at in the end
is a sad, washed-out, sandy plain,
you gaze about, take it in, bend
a wise head, nod; hope is in vain.
Do not pity the dead [...]. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
Humanity changes all the time, but there are a few constants. People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have...
It doesn't matter how much you love each other, that marriage is like an overloaded packhorse and you know it can fall to its knees or even roll over dead if all the wrong things happen at all the wrong times.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.