Jack Horkheimer quotes

“Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition I can do little else in my present position.”
-- Jack Horkheimer

Source : "Jack Horkheimer Passes Away at 72" by Kelly Beatty in "Sky & Telescope", August 20, 2010.

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“The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence.”
-- Jack Horkheimer

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“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

“They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.”

“I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.”

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods”

“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”