No Future

I live in a country with no future,
just an extended present
and an overwhelming past

A sufi saying...

Give me freedom to fly without a shadow,
Give me freedom to sing without an echo,
and to love without leaving traces.

Terribles battles!

Except for a battle lost, there is nothing so terrible as a battle won!

-David Weber

Only pain!

Beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotions, there is only pain and salvation form it!

-Rise of Endymion

A thousand times

You live only once,
but die a thousand times…

Hope kills

Ce qui tue c'est l'espoire
et tandis qu'ils en meurent
combien on voit des gens
qui disent qu'ils en vivent
-Anonyme

And my translation for our english speaking friends...

Hope kills
and while it is slaying them
how many say it is keeeping them
alive

Pain and love

Pain was only the other side of love!

-2nd chronicles of Thomas Convenant