Posted by: Luca Englaro
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
If life is good, why is it taken from us? And if it is bad, why is it given to us?
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If life is good, why is it taken from us? And if it is bad, why is it given to us?
No trace of that vanished world, no heart beat that answers my past feelings! I am like a ghost, who sees battered and burnt that castle which once he, a blooming prince, had created adorning it of every splendour, and that dying had left, full of hope, to his beloved son...
I will never be anyone but no one will ever be like me.
And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
The more intelligence you shall have, the more you shall suffer.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
I have given up attempting to be happy.
While a voice says: it's closing time, the customers are kindly invited to exit. The lights are wound down, she exits. The city is grey outside, the public square is empty, the church armored from a gate, you cannot sit down anymore on the steps, God perhaps goes around with a bulletproof vest, Alice thinks. And she thinks that maybe this evening she will have to sleep to the station, she will not be able to resist that cold, she will not be able to go ahead, but you speak about courage and grit and dignity to me, I'm only a meter and sixty-two for forty-seven kilos, how can I andle the squeak of the world and the shouts of the dead men and the false rock and the chill and the hunger, the oyster eaters and the benevolent dealers...
I have not made the '68 the '77' one and maybe I will not even make the 2008.
I need an angel.
Otherwise, I do not know how to do.