Top 11 Quotes by Eugene Kennedy

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

Spirit, Breathe, Mercy

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

Eugene Kennedy

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Degrees

Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

Eugene Kennedy

Death, Disappointment, Mean

There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

Eugene Kennedy

Communication, Silence, Sacred

There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.

Eugene Kennedy

Art, Cutting, Order

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

Eugene Kennedy

Hurt, Trying, Doe

Eugene Kennedy, Eugene C. Kennedy (1975). “If you really knew me, would you still like me?”, Tabor Pub.

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy

Friendship, Real Friends, Simple

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

Eugene Kennedy

Mother, Future, Mistress

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

Eugene Kennedy

Beautiful, Death, Summer

Eugene Kennedy (1987). “On Being a Friend”, Ballantine Books