“He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.”
Source: The History of Love
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Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
"A Note To The Reader".
The Way of Chuang-Tzŭ (1965)
Context: I simply like Chuang Tzu because he is what he is and I feel no need to justify this liking to myself or to anyone else. He is far too great to need any apologies from me. … His philosophical temper is, I believe, profoundly original and sane. It can of course be misunderstood. But it is basically simple and direct. It seeks, as does all the greatest philosophical thought, to go immediately to the heart of things.
Chuang Tzu is not concerned with words and formulas about reality, but with the direct existential grasp of reality in itself. Such a grasp is necessarily obscure and does not lend itself to abstract analysis. It can be presented in a parable, a fable, or a funny story about a conversation between two philosophers.
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) Indian politician
Source: Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001, P.202.
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
Footnote: It is because of his brain that he has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
The Modern Man
How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)
Douglas Reeman (1924–2017) British author
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 6 "Single-Handed"
“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
29 December 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's "one and only".
Source: Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank
