Source: Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: p>Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…</p
“Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: p>Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…</p
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician
On the song "Before We Disappear" from his 2015 solo album Higher Truth ** Chris Cornell Flashback Q&A: 'We Have to Be Aware That Life Is So Short', Yahoo!, May 19, 2017 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chris-cornell-flashback-qa-aware-life-short-023857577.html, <br class="br">On songwriting
Parker Palmer (1939) American theologian
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 52
“We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?”
Christine Feehan American writer
Source: Oceans of Fire
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
