quotes about Bygone Days

last updated: November 28, 2023

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.
-- Bob Dylan

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“Trust God in the dark until the light returns.”
“I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.”
“Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.”

Source : Mark Van Doren, William F. Claire (1980). “The essays of Mark Van Doren (1924-1972)”, Greenwood Pub Group
“Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.”

Source : "Bowl of Saki".
“I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I'm going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I'll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.”
“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
“Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.”
“I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.”
“No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must be one great family of equals. The spiritual welfare of those on relief must receive especial care and be earnestly and prayerfully fostered. A system which gives relief for work or service will go far to reaching these ends.”
“In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.”