For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.
David Paul KirkpatrickDecay is as inevitable as death, as nothing lives in this temporary world for eternity
Usama HussainTags: history
What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someone that he knew would never appear. He had long understood that one of his selves, the earliest and most vulnerable, had never left this place, and this original and clearest view of things could be recovered only through what had first come to him in the glow of its ordinary light and weather...it was the light they appeared in that was the point, and that at least had not changed.
David MaloufTags: past history waiting personal-history adolescence
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
Slash ColemanTags: life inspirational art friend friendship friends past future happiness love passion writing history identity adventure hate loss stories faith lack-of-love marriage relationships moving-on creativity living risk trust believe hurt chance self-help ideas memoir discovery remember chaos writer jewish love-at-first-sight good-morning lovers couples breaking-up youth-age judaism writers-on-writing broken-heart writing-life truths single broken-hearted writing-process writing-books being lovers-quarrels break-up breakups heart-ache writing-style online-dating love-hurts lovers-love-story broken-hearted-quotes lovers-sadness writers-quotes writers-world heart-break writers-life
They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.
Bernard MalamudTags: men history god mankind pity
For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed to be imagined.
Hilary MantelTags: writing history fiction-writing
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.
Ramsay MacMullenWe were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
Ian McDonaldTags: history youth foolishness fallibility invincibility
And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: science history ideas history-of-science big-ideas intelligent-playfulness
They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: humor history rain change environment mankind horse earth snow traffic poignant river pure brook next-generation a-wind-in-the-door
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