My Last Name Quotes

“But there is also a youth that returns as one grows older. After you’ve lived long enough in this broken-down old world, and seen the vanity of striving after the wind and felt the sting of the thorn and the thistle, you learn that, as the Preacher says, “There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.”
― Eric Schumacher, My Last Name

“so that I could remember that there is a mend for every tear—even that cold, terrible, unnatural tear that has ripped my heart too often, and which will stop my own heart someday soon, I suppose.”
― Eric Schumacher, My Last Name

“Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. — Ecclesiastes 11:7”
― Eric Schumacher, My Last Name

“There is an oldness and not a good oldness that settles on a person, even a young person when they have walked through seasons of grief and disappointment. There is a seriousness that settles on a person when they have felt the weight of loss and responsibility and worry.”
― Eric M. Schumacher, My Last Name

“There is nothing natural about being ninety-five years old, being dressed by a young woman in pink pajamas, being unable to forget the things you never wanted to remember, and unable to remember the only things you ever wanted to keep. No, there is nothing natural about death or its causes—this too, I remember.”
― Eric M. Schumacher, My Last Name