John Quotes

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet.

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

Talk is cheap for the man who boasts his worth, you don't have to take my word to know who i am.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost

Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.

I found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down.

And marbled clouds go scudding byThe many-steepled London sky.

I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away

Welcome, thou kind deceiver!Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

For you may palm upon us new for old:All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

Be true to your word and your work and your friend.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray.And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!

When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible!

The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement, '" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

On the Day of Judgment, life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.", Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

Now may this little Book a blessing beTo those that love this little Book, and me:And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

I write to make sense of my life."-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.

Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.