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Retired from the Misericordia Hospital July 3, 2009
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Ernest Hemingway Learning There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. Death in the Afternoon, ch. 16 (1932). This passage was used as the epigraph in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1955). ************ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Relationships When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), French aviator, author. Flight to Arras, ch. 19 (1942). *********** George Bernard Shaw Death and Humor Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Ridgeon, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, act 5. *********** Miguel de Unamuno Consciousness The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), Spanish philosophical writer. The Tragic Sense of Life, ch. 7 (1670). *********** Erica Jong Love Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong (b. 1942), U.S. author. Hans, in How to Save Your Own Life, "Intuition, extuition . . ." (1977). ************ C. S. Lewis The Reality Of Illusion It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn’t matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter. C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), British author. A Grief Observed, pt. 1 (1961). *********** Friedrich Nietzsche Life and Death Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher. The Gay Science, aph. 109 (rev. ed., 1887). ************ Saul Alinsky Individuality The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. Saul Alinsky (1909–72), U.S. radical activist. Rules for Radicals, Prologue (1971). *********** Václav Havel Hope Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Václav Havel (b. 1936), Czech playwright, president. Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990). ************** Robert Wilensky Chance We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. Computer science sage Robert Wilensky ************ Aldous Huxley Experience Experience
is not a matter of having
**************** Aldous Huxley Goodness Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British author. Grey Eminence, ch. 10 (1941). *********** Most of these quotes were obtained from: Microsoft Bookshelf 98- Book of Quotes, most of which were taken from the Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. Copyright © 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press. *********** |
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