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Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
---Pablo Neruda
I can't believe Joe Koch is complaining about the Goodreads Quote system
Christopher Marlowe, The Spell of the Open Air
"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?*
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Return with haste: time passeth swift away;
Our life is frail, and we may die today.
Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
- Romeo -
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air,
And more inconstant than the wind, who woos
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let thy voice,
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
---Alfred Tennyson
For this alone on Death I wreak
The wrath that garners in my heart:
He put our lives so far apart
We cannot hear each other speak.
Alfred Lord Tennyson "In Memoriam A.H.H."
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and for ever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
This melancholy London — I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually.
---W.B. Yeats
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before,
But vaster.
---Alfred Tennyson
Cast a cold eye
on life, on death
Horseman pass by
---W.E. Yeats
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?
---William Butler Yeats
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
----William Butler Yeats
Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.
----William Blake, The Book of Thel
To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart
---William Butler Yeats
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
----Philip Larkin
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning's birth;
The grass is bright with rain-drops;—on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
----William Wordsworth
No; cowards and faint-hearted runaways
Look for orations when the foe is near:
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Be silent then, for danger is in words.
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.
William Shakespeare
It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
Take pains. Be perfect.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Men of few words are the best men."
(3.2.41)
William Shakespeare, Henry V
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Iago
William Shakespeare, Othello
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
---William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.
Willam Shakesphere, Macbeth
Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare, Measure for
(I) only write it now because I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.("The Adoration of The Magi")
W.B. Yeats
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
---William Butler Yeats
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
W.B. Yeats
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
---W.B. Yeats
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
---William Blake
Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.
William Butler Yeats
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.
---William Blake
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
---William Blake
But to go to school in a summer morn,
O! It drives all joy away;
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day
In sighing and dismay.
----William Blake
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
---William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
----William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined.
---William Blake
What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
---William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils
----by William Wordsworth