Away - Quotes
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn`t explain away afterwards.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn`t go away.
All things that live, endure for the same span;
The century-old tree, and the one-day beetle,
Grow conscious, joy and love, and pass away
When they have reached their own appointed aims.
Time does not move. `Tis only we who change.
A hundred years are but one brief day.
Every part of nature teaches that the passing away of one life is the making room for another.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The Earth itself must pass away,
must like a bubble effervesce
and burst to empty nothingness!
One thought keeps going round my head:
The thought of dying in my bed!
Slowly withering like some overblown
Flower the greenfly gnaws and makes his own;
Wasting away like an old candlestick
In a deserted room, grown pale and sick.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world`s more full of weeping than you can understand.
I guess in a way anyone with enough ambition to create and not take away is someone who deserves respect.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.