Friend Dying Young Quotes & Sayings

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind — R. Buckminster Fuller

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know. — Bernhard Schlink

Those they praise, but they read the others. — Martial

If you will it, it is no dream.'" "I like that ... Who said it?" "Theodore Herzl. — Zack Love

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

I saw you watching me. You're turned on by my bad side, aren't you? You like a bad boy, don't you?" "I'm with you, aren't I? — Anonymous

Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today. — Martial

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended. — Benjamin Franklin

A double-edged sword
One side destroys
One releases
I am your Gordian knot
Will you release or destroy me?
Follow truth and you shall:
Find me on water
Purify me through fire
Trapped by earth nevermore
Air will whisper to you
What spirit already knows:
That even shattered
anything is possible
If you believe
Then we shall both be free. — Kristin Cast

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for. — Eskinder Nega

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later. — Lord Chesterfield

venting anger does not solve the problem that anger signals. — Harriet Lerner

In the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting — Will Schwalbe

I will never be old, Rachel promised herself. I will never be sad. I'd scarf a cyanide capsule first, kill myself like that friend of Lotto's everyone is crying about. Life isn't worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year. Under the dying — Lauren Groff

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia. — Romesh Gunesekera