Thomas Parsons quotes

“Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!”
-- Thomas Parsons

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“Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the west. The question is, will the sequence continue further ... Unfortunately, we think the answer is yes.”
-- Thomas Parsons

Source : " Istanbul advised to brace for major quake", www.cnn.com. April 28, 2000.

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“Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.”

“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”

Source : "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land". Book by Aime Cesaire, 1939.

“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”

“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”

“When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.”

“The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.”

“There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.”

“I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.”

“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”

“There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.”