tragically unhip | quotes

"it's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief. but then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer....and everything collapses." {Colette}

"live to the point of tears." {Albert Camus}

"don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." {Ann Landers}

"it's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." {Garrison Keillor}

"it's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. it gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand." {Madeleine L'Engle}

"remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something." {H. Jackson Brown, Jr.}

"even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings." {Antoine de Saint-Exupery}