Accepting Quote by Irving Townsend

“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary…” quote by Irving Townsend — Download Open image

“We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we would still live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.”

Irving Townsend

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Accepting Awful Certain Cherish Circles Death Fragile Gaps Immortality Life Memories Memory Plans Stills Surround Temporary Understanding Way

More by Irving Townsend

Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a…

Irving Townsend

Image

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me.

Irving Townsend

Image

Could the purr be anything but contemplative?

Irving Townsend

Image

Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives…

Irving Townsend

Image

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.

Irving Townsend

Image

Explore all 6 Irving Townsend quotes

More Accepting quotes

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.…

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Image

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

Tupac Shakur

Image

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Alice Englert

Image

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if…

Ann Voskamp

Image

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

Stephen Colbert

Image

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

Anonymous

Image

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Image

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

Alan Abel

Image

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

Jay Griffiths