Random Esquire

Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep.
–Richard Shelton

I have spread my dreams under your feet:  tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
–W.B. Yeats

There is a saying that “paper is more patient than man”; it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days…Yes, there is no doubt that paper is more patient.
–Anne Frank

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount.  The exact amount is no use to me.
–Antonia Porchia

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
–Albert Camus

Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found it was ourselves.
–Robert Frost

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
–Thomas Merton

You do not have to sit outside in the dark.  If, however, you want to look at stars, you will find that darkness is necessary.  But the stars neither require nor demand it.
–Annie Dillard

Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to?  You will never find that life for which you are looking.  When the gods created man, they allotted to him death, but life they retained for their own keeping.  As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice.  Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.
–The Epic of Gilgamesh