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Urd Quotes

I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park Picture Quote #1

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life Picture Quote #1

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children’s feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared Picture Quote #1

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals Picture Quote #1

I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you’re three feet tall Picture Quote #1

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder Picture Quote #1

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light Picture Quote #1

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being Picture Quote #1

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point Picture Quote #1

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden Picture Quote #1

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power... Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art Picture Quote #1

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable Picture Quote #1

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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan Picture Quote #1

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics Picture Quote #1

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity Picture Quote #1

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? Picture Quote #1

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge Picture Quote #1

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all Picture Quote #1

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As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day Picture Quote #1

Forgiveness. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that Picture Quote #1

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal Picture Quote #1

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden Picture Quote #1

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke Picture Quote #1

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction Picture Quote #1

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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them Picture Quote #1

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again Picture Quote #1

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that Picture Quote #1

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love Picture Quote #1

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss Picture Quote #1

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears Picture Quote #1

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I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park (Urd Quotes) Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life (Urd Quotes) Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children’s feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared (Urd Quotes) Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals (Urd Quotes) I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you’re three feet tall (Urd Quotes) The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder (Urd Quotes) To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light (Urd Quotes) Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being (Urd Quotes) Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point (Urd Quotes) Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden (Urd Quotes) Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power... Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art (Urd Quotes) How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable (Urd Quotes) Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan (Urd Quotes) No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics (Urd Quotes) I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity (Urd Quotes) Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? (Urd Quotes) Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge (Urd Quotes) As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all (Urd Quotes) As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day (Urd Quotes) Forgiveness. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that (Urd Quotes) Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal (Urd Quotes) Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden (Urd Quotes) When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke (Urd Quotes) Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction (Urd Quotes) Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them (Urd Quotes) When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again (Urd Quotes) I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that (Urd Quotes) This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love (Urd Quotes) In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss (Urd Quotes) Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears (Urd Quotes)

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