Life and Existence

Everything I have written seems like straw by comparison with what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

Though lovers be lost love shall not;

Tantum ergo sacramentum

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

Let nothing trouble you, nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patient endurance attains all things. Whoever possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Ils n’ont rien appris, ni rien oublié.

This is the beginning of the end.

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

I s’pect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.

I s’pect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds—if it was a bet, you wouldn’t take it.

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they’re all blood, you see.

Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end?

Under the wide and starry sky

This be the verse you grave for me: