April 09, 2004

Half Dozen Quotes

before taking my next round of meds and letting them take me off to sleep, i stumbled across a number of quotes that i thought were worth sharing.

in no particular order...

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
-- Carl Sandburg

If you want what you have never had, you must do what you have never done.
-- Eastman Curtis

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
-- T.S. Eliot

You know you love someone when you want them to be happy even when their happiness means that you aren't a part of it.
-- Unknown

Music is, after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible.
-- Aldous Huxley

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

Posted by ac at April 9, 2004 11:11 PM

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