Posted 5/2/2020 3:42 PM (GMT 0)
PA Grandma, Joyce, use to post on this Depression forum, and for awhile did a column of jokes and words of wisdom. Her last column was 5/1/2018 before she passed away not long after that.
For about a week, I wrote her column for her, which consisted largely of sayings. I came across some quotes from literature recently and they reminded me of the sayings. And they reminded me of Joyce.
The following applies to Joyce:
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
1. How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
— Josh Baran, The Tao of Now: Daily Wisdom from Mystics, Sages, Poets, and Saints
2. Time is the longest distance between two places.
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
3. I hadn’t expected that a tiny glimmer of hope for the future could transform someone so utterly.
— Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
4. “For the better part of my childhood, my professional aspirations were simple–I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.” – Janet Evanovich
5. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
6. Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
— Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility
7. You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel
8. I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.
— Mary Kubica, The Good Girl
9. Each time you happen to me all over again.
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
10. "And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like dirt."
--London Fields; Author: Martin Amis; Year: 1989
11. “You call yourself a free spirit, a 'wild thing,' and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
12. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— The Fellowship of the Ring.