“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: Evil Genius
“Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) English children's fantasy writer
Source: Magids Series, The Merlin Conspiracy (2003), p. 113.
“But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic.”
Evelyn Waugh book Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall (1928)
Rick Cook (1944) American writer
The Wizardry Cursed (1991)
“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“Listen, here is the law! I am the law! These boys go to work!”
Frank Hague (1876–1956) Mayor of Jersey City
Speech on city government to the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City (10 November 1937), quoted in New York Times. (11 November 1937), p. 1, responding to the director of the Board of Education's special service bureau, upon being told that the law required two young delinquents to go to school rather than work, as they would have preferred.
Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Master Jun Hong Lu - Ambassador of Peace Education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrZUen8PMVI&feature=youtu.be&list=PLU6NSq1Oq8pxTDav8m7__9IVbfqlTPB4C&t=175, YouTube, 2016 <br class="br">Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door
“Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
Source: Johnny Cash Quotes