The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
Edwin Arlington RobinsonRead
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the inevitability of death and the transient nature of friendships.
Edwin Arlington Robinson's quote addresses the universal truth of mortality and the emotional pain associated with the loss of loved ones. It suggests that while we fear the truth of our own mortality and the departures of friends, acceptance of these realities can lead to a sense of peace, as death ultimately brings an end to our suffering and longing.
Themes
DeathFriendshipLossTruthMortality
In practice
Example use cases
In a eulogy, to remind everyone of the shared experience of loss and the importance of accepting mortality.
More from Edwin Arlington Robinson
All quotes βThe stillness of October gold_x000D_ _x000D_ Went out like beauty from a face.
Edwin Arlington RobinsonRead
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
Edwin Arlington RobinsonRead
Similar quotes
Golf is typical capitalist luncay.
George Bernard ShawRead
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
Charles DickensRead
The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.
Morihei UeshibaRead
[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.
Gore VidalRead
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle
Louis AlthusserRead