“Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
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Kóbó Abe16
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993Related quotes
“It is only the dead who do not return.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers
Source: The Three Musketeers
“[Translated]: It is only the dead who do not return.”
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755–1841) French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most notorious members of the National Convention …
II n'ya que les morts qui ne reviennent pas.
Speech, 1794, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Primo Levi (1918–1987) Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, essayist
As quoted in The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994) by Eric J. Hobsbawm
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic
This reading was given to a woman who was crippled with infantile paralysis and couldn't walk.
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