“The world will remain as brutal as our level of desensitization to its brutality.”
As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”
“He was a warm and friendly person who could mix with one and all on even terms.”
Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah
“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”
Source: The Eagle of the Ninth
Solitude
Poetry quotes
Source: Poems of Passion
Context: Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
“Years! Years, ye shall mix with me!
Ye shall grow a part
Of the laughing Sea”
"The Dirge of the Sea" (April 1891)
Context: Years! Years, ye shall mix with me!
Ye shall grow a part
Of the laughing Sea;
Of the moaning heart
Of the glittered wave
Of the sun-gleam's dart
In the ocean-grave. Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
For that I love
Thy heart of stone!
From the heights above
To the depths below,
Where dread things move, There is naught can show
A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown!
Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!
25 December 1492
Journal of the First Voyage
“A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.”
As quoted in "Attaining the Ideals", in 'Awake!' magazine (8 September 2000)
