“Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”
Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable
The Unnamable (1954)
“Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”
Samuel Beckett book The Unnamable
The Unnamable (1954)
“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
Source: Leaving Home (1987), p. 9
Context: Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
Kai Cheng Thom (1991) writer
What I learned, loved and lost as a trans Zumba addict (2018)
“Thank you, dear God
For putting me on this Earth
I feel very privileged
In debt for my thirst”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Downer
Song lyrics, Bleach (1989)
Marion Woodman (1928–2018) Canadian writer
Source: Bone: Dying into Life (2000), p. 241
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Preface
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851)
“Dear Friends, for we have many Dangers past,
And greater, God these too will end at last.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
Speaking at his party's convention in Sardinia (28 January 2006), as reported in Il Giornale (29 January 2006) <br class="br">Variant translation: I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until election day. <br class="br">As reported in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/20/italy <br class="br">2006