Other people’s words

Because I’ve run out of my own words….(this entry actually copied from my old old OD from like, 2000)

“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” -Holden, Catcher in the Rye

Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there, I did not die. -??

“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another -It’s one damn thing over and over.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay

But what am I?
An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light:
And with no language but a cry. -Alfred Tennyson (In Memoriam, liv.)

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream. -Edgar Allan Poe (A Dream Within a Dream)

“Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.” -??

Life is one long process of getting tired. -Samuel Butler (Note Books)

The trouble with life is there’s no background music. -??

“Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.” ~Seth, City of Angels

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. -Joseph Fort Newton

Men show their characters in what they think laughable. – Goeth

“The more stupid, the happier.” – Chinese proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side. -Japanese proverb

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. -Stephan C Paul

“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.” -Publilius Syrus

Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this. – Virgil

You can usually judge the caliber of a man by the size of the things that get his goat. -??

“I dance to the tune that is played.” -Spanish proverb

We do not remember days, we remember moments. -Cesare Pavese

There are times when if you are not feeling like yourself, it is quite an improvement. -??

“I do not want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.” -Latin Amer. Proverb

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses. -Arthur Aclamov

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be deprived of a crutch. -James Baldwin

“Expressing a human need, I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise.” -Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. -Don Marquis

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough of the bad luck of the early worm. -FDR

“People change and forget to tell each other.” -Lillian Hellman

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. -Browning

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be safely insane every night of the week. -Dr William Charles Dement

“Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’ve got too much money.” -Sting

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? =Stephen Levine

“Every friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” -Anais Nin

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotions, it is an escape from emotion; It is not an expression of personality; it is an escape from personality. But only those who have emotions and personality, know what it is to want to escape from these thing! -T.S. Eliot

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. -Willa Cather

“Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.” -Kenny Ausubel

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Belloe

“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.” -Nathaniel Lee (on being consigned to a mental institution, circa 17th c.)

The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good. -Nietzsche

“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.” -Franz Kafka

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. -Albert Schweitzer

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -Picasso

“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.” -Tallulah Bankhead