Robyn Abbott

“The devil may visit us, but God lives here.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“The bird keeps silent and waits: it knows, or rather it fully and firmly believes, that everything takes place at its appointed time. Therefore the bird waits, but it knows that it is not granted to it to know the hour or the day; therefore it keeps silent. Then, when the moment comes, the silent bird understands that this is the moment; it makes use of it and is never put to shame.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses

“i don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“The bird keeps silent and suffers. However much heartache it has, it keeps silent. It does not complain; it accuses no one; it sighs only to fall silent again. The bird is not free from suffering, but the silent bird frees itself from what makes the suffering more burdensome: from the misunderstood sympathy of others; frees itself from what makes the suffering last longer: from all the talk of suffering; frees itself from what makes the suffering into something worse than suffering: from the sin of impatience and sadness.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses