Paul Simon Quotes
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
Quotes to Explore
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
Irvin Mayfield -
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers -
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher -
I believe that music is God's voice.
Brian Wilson -
My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
Neil Diamond -
Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
Walter Map
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Oswald Chambers -
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
Oswald Chambers -
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin -
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
Pablo Neruda -
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
Saint Augustine -
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
Amy Lowell
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
Oscar Wilde -
Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
Erykah Badu -
Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
Artie Shaw -
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.
A.S.A. Harrison
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America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.
Richard Lamm -
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel