“Can it be your spirit does not thrive? Can it be you’ve weighed your life of kissing arse and crouching before fat purses, and have found it wanting?”
Part 1, Chapter 9 (p. 65)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
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Variant: Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
The Twelve (1918); translation from Jon Stallworthy and Peter France (trans.) The Twelve, and Other Poems (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) p. 146.
“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul.”
“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 8 (p. 92)
“Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.”
"At the 'Mermaid'"(1876) <!-- line 72 - 80 -->
Context: Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.
Act 3, sc. 4
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“Entrust your life to a person who can feel her heartbeat when you kiss her.”
Original: Affida la tua vita ad una persona che possa sentire il battito del suo cuore quando la baci.
Source: prevale.net