Quotes about Sketch

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

The shape of the city stood in the grayness like a charcoal drawing sketched across the waste.

Bonhoeffer sketched what would in reality become his own virtue and fate: "But their peace will never be greater than when they encounter