Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?
Interpretation
Mourning a pet reflects our deep emotional connection and the beauty of love in nature.
This quote emphasizes the profound emotional responses we experience in relation to our pets and the natural world. Krauthammer argues that mourning a beloved dog is a natural and deeply human reaction, highlighting the beauty and sweetness inherent in our connection to animals and nature. It suggests that our capacity to feel such sorrow is not eccentric or obscene but rather a testament to our ability to appreciate love and beauty.
In practice
In a speech about grief and loss, one might use this quote to illustrate the deep emotional ties people have with their pets.
If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.
You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think - and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.
When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over, the press of reality becomes irresistible. By necessity, it adopts some of the policies it had once denounced. And a new national consensus is born.
She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
In the garden _x000D_ I see only your face _x000D_ From trees and blossoms _x000D_ I inhale only your fragrance.
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.