How quickly passes away the glory of this world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
We have all fallen short of the glory of God.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
We pass through this world but once.
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
When you are present, the world is truly alive.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
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