“None of us can choose the manner of our passing.”
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 10
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“None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.”
Savitri (1918-1950), Book Two : The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Context: p>As in a studio of creative Death
The giant sons of Darkness sit and plan
The drama of the earth, their tragic stage.
All who would raise the fallen world must come
Under the dangerous arches of their power;
For even the radiant children of the gods
To darken their privilege is and dreadful right.
None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.</p
“Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.”
Testimony in The Public Television Act of 1967 : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications, by the United States Congress, p. 167
Context: Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. All of us who are mature feel that there are historic principles of behavior and morality, of things that we all believe in that are being lost, not because young people couldn't believe in them, but because there is no language for translating them into contemporary terms.
The search for that language, the search for the ways to tell young people what we know as we grow older — the permanent and wonderful things about life — will be one of the great functions of this system. We are losing this generation. We all know that. We need a way to get them back.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.”
Source: Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Post-Presidency, Nobel lecture (2002)
“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
Variant: All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“None of their own will choose a bond-slave's life.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 953 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)