Grace McCleen quotes

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?
-- Grace McCleen

#Sleep #Forever #Wake Up

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

Is she forever for you then? She's worth throwing it all away?" "She's it. No one else. She's all I'm ever going to want.

I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.

I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.

It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.