Theramenes quotes

Theramenes quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Here's to the health of my beloved Critias !”
-- Theramenes

#Beloved Quotes #Last Words Quotes

“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
“Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?”

Source : Bulleh Shah, “Repeating The Name Of The Beloved”
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
“I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.”
“I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.”
“We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.”
“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
“I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.”
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
“I hope it won't take long.”

Source : "The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner". Book by Eugene Paul Wigner edited by Alvin M. Weinberg and Alfred M. Perry, November 1, 1992.

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