“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
“Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—’Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?”
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.”
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
“It is impossible for man to look straight at the present, because he is too terrified by it. We stand on the stern of the ship looking at the wake and saying, ‘We’re in very troubled waters.”
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.”
