“The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.”

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.

Families are a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.

If you’re sick, if you’re struggling, if you’re worried about how you’re going to get through the day – we will not abandon you. We will not leave you to face these challenges alone.

The Lord does not abandon us! Even if we are men and women ‘of little faith.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.