Shantymen Exmouth Quotes & Sayings

What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer? -And yet old Moses said: Thou shalt not kill. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling. — Barbara Abercrombie

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it. — Charles Dickens

Surely joy is the condition of life. — Henry David Thoreau

But me, not destined such delights to share,
My prime of life in wandering spent and care;
Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view
That, like the circle bounding earth and skies,
Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies;
My fortune leads to traverse reams alone,
And find no spot of all the world my own. — Oliver Goldsmith

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. — Arthur Golden

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys. — Dick Dale

the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes. — Farley Mowat