Tag: life and death

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In general, every country has the language it deserves. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life and death have been lacking in my life. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life and Death Quotes

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. – Epictetus

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset. – Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 – 1890

Today is the first and last day of forever. – Stephenie Meyer

A man’s dying is more his survivor’s affair than his own. – Thomas Mann

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. – George S. Patton

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. – From a headstone in Irelan

Funny Motivational Sports Quotes

Posted on November 9, 2010November 8, 2010 by

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. – Bill Vaughn

On how to make the game more exciting – Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the center jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns. – Al McGuire

Fans never fall asleep at our games because they’re afraid they might get hit with a pass. – George Raveling

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. – Bill Shankly

I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. – Dave Barry

Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative. – Dan Frisby

The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long. – Jack Dolph (on basketball)

Even if you are on the right track… You’ll get run over if you just sit there! – Will Rogers