Robert Hellenga Quotes

#1. There was a time I didn't know your name
Why should I worry, cry in vain
but now she's gone, and I don't worry
cause I'm sittin' on top of the world.

Robert Hellenga

#2. She heard melody and harmony and counterpoint; he heard something calling him from far, far away.

Robert Hellenga

#3. Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

Robert Hellenga

#4. He wondered what you had to do to lose your driver's license in Italy.

Robert Hellenga

#5. The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Robert Hellenga

#6. What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

Robert Hellenga

#7. Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

Robert Hellenga

#8. Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

Robert Hellenga

#9. Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

Robert Hellenga

#10. He knew that he'd known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things.

Robert Hellenga

#11. However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.

Robert Hellenga