Everything is determined,
every beginning and ending,
by forces over which we have no control.
It is determined for the insect,
as well as for the star.
Human beings,
vegetables,
or cosmic dust,
we all dance to a mysterious tune,
intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
— Albert Einstein
- My Real Purpose Might Be To Learn To Have No PurposesI did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it. Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I felt that I was ever outside, missing things. At that time… Read more: My Real Purpose Might Be To Learn To Have No Purposes
- I Can’t Just Speak About SufferingIf there is to be any truth in beauty I can’t just speak about suffering as if there isn’t some good in suffering too. — Todd Dillard from poem Arts and Crafts with the Addict’s Son
- I Remember My Watery NatureI remember my watery nature, pour my liquid body to wash away the pain of the shorter years, to wash away the pain of a hollow embrace, the feeling that we all will slide, not into the clear pool, but into the murk of a place that should not be settled. — Petra Kuppers from… Read more: I Remember My Watery Nature
- Don’t Remember Lighting This Cigarettedon’t remember lighting this cigarette and I don’t remember if I’m here alone or waiting for someone. — Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
- You Fit Into Meyou fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye — Margaret Atwood from poem [you fit into me]