Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: You show signs of levity, and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
And I said "Right."
Spoken on the Track "The Story of Reuben Clamzo" on the album One Night.
“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”
Source: Shanghai Girls
“The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.”
“Don't be a wise guy in here, sir. There's only one wise person in here - and that's Byrd.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37tcUYWijiw
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Being funny
“Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”
Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/
“Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard?
—Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.”
“The Leap”.
Great Days (1979)
The Meaning of Immortality in Human Experience (1957), p. 5.
Context: Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. This does not mean that he doubts it as a future fact. He accepts his own death, with that of others, as inevitable; plans for it; provides for the time when he shall be out of the picture. Yet, not less today than formerly, he confronts this fact with a certain incredulity regarding the scope of its destruction.
Answers to Nine Questions (September 1896), answers to nine questions submitted by Clarence Rook, who had interviewed him in 1895
1890s
