Life and Existence

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Though lovers be lost love shall not;

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

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

Tantum ergo sacramentum

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.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

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

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

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.

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