Life and Existence

I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men.

 

“I will take the Ring,” he said, “though I do not know the way.”

 

The Road goes ever on and on

 

I hold it true, whate’er befall;

 

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

 

In Memoriam.

 

For my purpose holds

 

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

 

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

 

Much have I seen and known; cities of men

 

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink

 

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

 

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

 

While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

 

Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead

 

Since Life is but a Dream,

 

Either this man [Jesus] was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

 

Have you built your ship of death, O have you?

 

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying.

 

And if tonight my soul may find her peace

 

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass

 

To arrive at the truth in all things, we ought always to be ready to believe that what seems to us white is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it.

 

Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames.

 

Life seems to me like a Japanese picture which our imagination does not allow to end with the margin. We aim at the infinite and when our arrow falls to earth it is in flames.