Deathward Quotes & Sayings

I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it. — John Newton

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew. — Phil Donahue

I remember When I was a star In the night A moving, burning ember Amid the bright Clouds of star fire Going deathward To the womb. - JOHN WHITESIDE PARSONS, untitled — George Pendle

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all. — James Branch Cabell

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it. — Charles E. McKenzie

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?' — Jan Karon

How would she ever look at Redding again? How could she face his critical scrutiny? — Eliza Lloyd

Sometimes the worst failures in our lives turn out to be for the best. Sometimes our path leads through darkness, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't walk it. Sometimes our path leads to loss. But that doesn't mean we've gone astray. — Anne Elisabeth Stengl

If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even. Somebody--I — Oscar Wilde

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. — Don DeLillo

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. — Doris Lessing

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better. — John P. Kotter

... All will be
forgotten, everything you perceived, thought,
dreamed, hoped, remembered ... all the past
all the crawling fucking coughing chestpounding
nose-picking and deathward attempts
to make real some desperate desire, like
standing upright for a minute in the sun. The
sun that will die. — Franz Wright

The cat is nature's masterpiece. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological. — Rebecca Scherm

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader. — Benjamin Tucker