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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness read more
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows read more
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.