Thing Quotes (page 561)

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• great
• heart
• humanity

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. Friedrich Nietzsche

• wisdom
• mind
• mindfulness

19 Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things. (translated by Brooks Haxton) Heraclitus

• go
• wrong
• them

When things go wrong don't go with them. Elvis Presley

• pain
• people
• clearing

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should Nicholas Sparks

• words
• accounting
• wording

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound. James Joyce

• manly
• little
• same

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson? the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man. John Updike

• god
• top
• crossing

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God. Aldous Huxley

• god
• rain
• die

where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, Charles Bukowski

• work
• hair
• driving

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club. Martin Luther

• thinking
• life
• tired life

Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly. The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life. With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt. Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough. We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• walking
• sleep
• die

Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come backwe will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love. Galway Kinnell

• good
• passed away
• things

All good things pass away. Philip Pullman

• dog
• mirror
• war

Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings. The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days. Clive Barker

• crying
• goodbye
• together

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.We lived and died together.All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our... Sherman Alexie

• personality
• personal
• good

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one. Dean Koontz