Sentences That Passed Across My Heart
Sentences That Passed Across My Heart
Sentences That Passed Across My Heart
Those sentences that walk across my heart.
No matter how difficult and bewildering this world may be,
no matter how rough the road, how heavy the sorrow,
it is still beautiful.
After all, we all long
to become happy people,
to love one another.
— Ivan Bunin
The Life of Arseniev
If someone asks you why you still read printed books, why you still write letters, why you would travel thousands of miles just to see one person, tell them this: because you insist on living deeply and passionately in this callous world. — Lu Sihao
How much there is
that is worth remembering,
buried away
in the heart,
or in some corner of the world.
And yet, even if this world
is full of partings in life and death
from which there is no reunion,
do not forget
that between “hello” and “goodbye”
there was once love—
so much love.
Have you ever missed someone
like a tide surging over you?
That feeling is like this:
just when you finally seem to have calmed down for a moment,
the heartache strikes again,
without warning.
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse:
and his name that sat on him was Death,
and Hades followed with him.
And power was given unto them
over the fourth part of the earth,
to kill with
sword, and with hunger, and with death,
and with the beasts of the earth.
— Revelation
People in this world do two things: one is moving things around on the earth; the other is directing others to move things around on the earth. — Bertrand Russell
There is a kind of love—the kind I feel for you: from far away, watching with only a faint shred of imagination. To brush a touch of lipstick onto these darkening years. For so many years I have not known whether I have been using imagination to sustain my love for you, or using you to sustain my capacity for imagination. — Liu Yu, Remaining Joy
There are only two ways to live your life:
one is as though nothing is ordinary,
and the other is as though everything is a miracle.
— Albert Einstein
Life can only be lived
one day at a time,
with care.
There is no other way.
Do not worry about tomorrow.
Tomorrow's worries can wait until tomorrow.
I want to spend today alone
being happy, working hard,
and treating others gently.
— Osamu Dazai, Novel Lantern
First, a person should be kind.
Second, they should be honest.
But most importantly,
they must not forget one another.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Where there is hope, there will certainly be trials.
As has often been said, this is absolutely true.
Only, hope is usually scarce,
and more often than not abstract,
while trials are so plentiful they become hateful,
and most of them painfully concrete.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
