Preliminary Final Loss

Famous quotes containing the words preliminary, final and/or loss:

    Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
    Paul Tillich (1886–1965)

    What he loved so much in the plant morphological structure of the tree was that given a fixed mathematical basis, the final evolution was so incalculable.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)