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“Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.”

Life Eye Lasts Life Is Given Waiting Black Dark Poor Leader Watches Air Masters Balls Dancing Charity Warm Hungry Gates Going Away Standing Out Jewels Pennies Carriages Lackeys Hungry Eyes

Author:Austin O'Malley

“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.”

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.”

Knows Life Has Beens Book Ends Life Is Black Know How Our Lives Mines Skins Live Life Ran Do You Know Garbage Dump End Of Life

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.”

Ifs World Life May Turns Black Rooms Gone Finished Straws Damp Chimneys Flare Small Rooms

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.”

Life Dream Black Sun Mass Hospitals

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“A life is black, whiten it as you will.”

Life Life Is Black

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.”

People Ifs Want Life Years Matter Fighting Courses Black Rights Dignity Civil Rights Scream Want Me Black Lives

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!”

Life Wells Black Nature Education Teach Teacher Bears Bird Philosophical Frozen Nests Good Teacher Vulture

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.”

People Life Body Black Music Huge Proud Honor Musician Moved Appreciation My Time Accomplished

Author:Rich Robinson