At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Jessamyn West Every arrival foretells a leave-taking, every birth a death. Yet each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sex and religion are bordering states. They use the same vocabulary, share like ecstasies, and often serve as a substitute for one another. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood — and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: life choices choosing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: ignorance communication youth forgetting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every arrival foretells a leave-taking, every birth a death. Yet each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sex and religion are bordering states. They use the same vocabulary, share like ecstasies, and often serve as a substitute for one another. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood — and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: life choices choosing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: ignorance communication youth forgetting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email