Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
Jack Kerouac
Related It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of ... STEVE VERNON Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. BALTASAR GRACIáN It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose b... JACK KEROUAC He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose. JOHN LYLY He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose. JOHN LYLY If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
... NATHANIEL COTTON Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And per... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And per... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And p... FRANCIS THOMPSON So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection i... GEORGE FOREMAN We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing,... FAY WELDON God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the t... C. JOYBELL C. Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose. LANCE CONRAD I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered.... PAUL AUSTER Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live... PETER DIAMANDIS We live in a culture of secrecy, where hiding and lying are accepted as natural, even though we don... PENNEY PEIRCE I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. A.E. HOUSMAN This is the truth as I see it, my dear,
Out in the wind and the rain:
They who have nothing ha... MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing els... UGO BETTI Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say not... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young and this alone proves tha... ZOE AKINS We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones, HAFIZ A hero is not someone who does something courageous when he has nothing to lose and something to gai... ARTHUR FORMAN Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. JOHN MILTON My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to ... NANCY PELOSI We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and w... RANBIR KAPOOR Beware of one who has nothing to lose. ITALIAN PROVERB All people are, at heart, egocentric. We exist at the center of our own little universes. We believe... PETER DAVID We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I think our seniors realized we haven't lost a game here in four years, and they didn't want to be t... JACQUES CURTIS That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those w... FRANCIS ARINZE Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part... SHANNON L. ALDER Our tasks are given, we are but instruments.
Nothing is all our own that we create. SRI AUROBINDO One of the great things we do is recognize people. Those things are greatly appreciated by family an... CARL PERSIS We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance. WILLIAM STEPHENSON The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Som... JEANNE D'ARC . . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and underst... ANNE RICE We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL there are countless times i want to give up and just do nothing, but there is one thing that tells m... BAILEY CHANDRA I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you... YOKO ONO Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol... HENRI BARBUSSE Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar... VICTOR HUGO You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what ma... LUIS BUñUEL Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones ... STEVE BACKLEY You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what ma... LUIS BUNUEL You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what ma... LUIS BUñUEL We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were... UNKNOWN They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothin... TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the swee... SAMMY DAVIS, JR. Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a
real friend. Such a one is as it we... BIDPAI (PILPAY) Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to rede... WALTER KAUFMANN See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. ... ERIC HOFFER Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. ... ERIC HOFFER I want to say unequivocally that safety is our number one priority. Nothing will ever compromise tha... BILL AYER Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the... FRANZ MARC I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. EDGAR ALLAN POE Our children are our own little angels, nurture them, love them, believe in how special and importan... SARAH VINE we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react a... KATIE MCGARRY What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Since the women are the ones who bear the babies, and there's nothing we can do about that, our ... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love... SAM KEEN To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love... JOHN N. MITCHELL Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our f... CAMILA ALVES White Rock Lake is a refuge from city life. If we lose that, we lose our natural beauty ... and I do... BRAD ROGERS Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again JOHN M SHEEHAN God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random peopl... ANNIE DILLARD I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. VIRGIL We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... CARL T. ROWAN We came with nothing so we have nothing to lose. We have enough time to feel, experience, and enjoy. DEBASISH MRIDHA We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... CARL T. ROWAN We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making. STEPHEN RICHARDS We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... CARL ROWAN We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered... CARL ROWAN By learning whether it is safe and effective in our (pet) companions, we may also know whether it is... GERALD SCHATTEN Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. Firs... DIANE SETTERFIELD It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon ... JOHAN HUIZINGA We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time... PYTHAGORAS Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing. SUZANNE COLLINS It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to... MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to... MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO When we are able to systematise and theologise God down to a set of absolute theological principles,... BRANDAN ROBERSTON He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like peop... MICHAEL FINKEL Other people will not always see our worth the way we wish they would. Sometimes our own loved ones ... STALINA GOODWIN We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread HENRY FORD
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