Tuodag Quotes & Sayings

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more. — Henry Bolingbroke

Ironically, we may discover that death meditation is not a morbid exercise at all. Only when we lose the use of something taken for granted (whether the telephone or an eye) are we jolted into a recognition of its value. When the phone is fixed, the bandage removed from the eye, we briefly rejoice in their restoration but swiftly forget them again. In taking them for granted, we cease to be conscious of them. In taking life for granted, we likewise fail to notice it. (To the extent that we get bored and long for something exciting to happen.) By meditat- ing on death, we paradoxically become conscious of life. — Stephen Batchelor

What the hell good was it to be the Lord of the Underworld if there was fuzz on your underdone toast. — Christopher Moore

Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs; — H.P. Lovecraft

We hate so fast and we love too slow — Pink