Bersani Obituary Quotes & Sayings

The place of horror turns out to be no more than a green scoop, sometimes shadowed, sometimes shining with the bilberries and grass within it, as if a mouth had opened from which streamed a beam of light. So my uncle Robert's death, which had looked from a distance to be an all-consuming tragedy was, close-up, the story of a man finding release from his pain and how his brother had showed such defiant love. The past was a grave, a trap - and yet, also neither of these. Just light, coming and going.
At the wolf pit you imagine you will stare into a hole littered with bones, but what draws you to that place is not what you take from it. The wolf pit seems a delicate illusion. You walk towards it; there is nothing, just a curve of the moor; then it is a soft green light, and then it is nothing again. — Will Cohu

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. — Samuel Butler

He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game.
(on David Beckham) — Steve McClaren

I don't care how late it is, I will not go to sleep without washing my face. — Christine Lakin

I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us — Jack Kerouac

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. — Arthur Schopenhauer

A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether. — Mary Oliver

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain. — Myrtle Reed

The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about. — Rick Perry