Posted by: Anonima96
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Only art can interrupt the monotony of the being.
Life always waits for critical situations, to reveal its most brilliant side...
We are born Stars, but often we live like Comets.
Never ask me "what is love?". I should answer askin' you "what is life?".
I enjoy with Life... before Death enjoy with me.
But every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.
Your sons aren't your sons,
they're sons and daughters of life itself.
You give them life, but you don't create them.
They're close to you, but they're not yours.
You can give them all your love, but not your ideas,
because they have their own ideas.
You can house their body, but not their
soul,
because their soul lives in the house of what'll occur,
where you aren't supposed to go, not even through dreams.
You can try to look like them, but not that they
look like you,
because life doesn't go back and doesn't stop
at yesterday.
You're the arch that shoots your sons towards tomorrow.
At the end I finished blurting "I am too old for that kind of young idealisms, I've already been through all these things! - Must I put up with all this again?"
"But it's authentic, it's the truth!" Simon screams "the world is an infinity enchanted place! It gives everyone love and they will give it back! I have seen it!"
"I know it that it's true but I have enough!"
"But you cannot be tired, if you have enough we have enough, if everybody has enough and is tired, everybody is surrending, and then the world falls in to pieces and dies!"
"And it's so like this that it would have to be!"
"No! There should be the life!"
"It doesn't make difference!"
"Ah my Jacky don't come to say these things to me, life is life and blood and strain and tickles" (and he starts to make me tickles on the ribs in order to demonstrate it to me) "Do you see? You jump, you feel you tickle, you life, you have a vital beauty in the brain and a vital joy in the heart and a vital orgasm in the body, all you have to do is live, Live! Everybody loves to take themselves arm in arm along the walk" from that I understand that he has spoken with Irwin.
"Alas miserable, I am so tired" I am forced to admit.
"No way! Waked up! Be happy! Where do we go now?"