Thought provoking Quotes?
Quotes I’ve collected
My Soul leaps over mountains
My heart swims the Oceans,
My Life slowly leaves me
For my spirit fights your chains
-- Guess--
I have lived long enough;
My way of life
Is fall’n into the sear,
The yellow leaf:
-- Shakespeare, McBeth, V,3
The man who has not
Anything to boost of but
his illustrious ancestors is like
a potato- the only good belonging to him
Is underground
--Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters (1614)
The face is the mirror of ones mind.
The eyes a reflection of ones soul
Ones expression without sounds,
can confess the secrets of the heart,
& reveal the truth within the soul.
--Guess--
I think I could turn & live with animals,
They are so placid & self-contained.
--Walt Whitman, song of myself
There is no excellent beauty
That hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
--Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Beauty
It self, by itself soley,
ONE everlastingly, & Single.
--Plato-Sympos
Beauty is that Medusa’s Head
Which men go armed to seek & sever
It is most deadly when, most dead,
& dead will stare & sting forever
--Archibald Mcleish, Beauty
When life is woe,
& hope is dumb
When the world says, “GO!”
The grave says “COME!”.
--Arthur, Guiterman, Betel-Nuts
I will bring fire to thee
--Euripides- Andromache
Out of the chill & the shadow,
Into the thrill & the Shrine;
Out of the dearth & the famine,
Into the fullness divine.
-Margaret E. Sangster, Going Home
I Hate & I love.
Perhaps you ask why I do so
I do not know,
But I feel it, & I am in torment
(Odi et amo.
Quare id faciam,
fortasse requires.
Nescio; sed fieri sentio et excrucior.)
--Catullus, Odes, LXXXV
A feeling of sadness & longing
That’s is not akin to pain,
& resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles rain
--Longfellow, The day is done
One fire burns out another’s burnings;
One pain is lesson’d by another’s anguish.
--Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, I,2.
& the devil did grin,
For his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
S.T. Coleridge, The Devils thoughts
To each his suff’ring: all are men,
Condemn’d alike to groan;
the tender for another’s pain,
Thus unfeeling for his own.
---Gray, ODE on a distant prospect of Eton College
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you;
& drugs cause cramps.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
--Dorothy Parker, Resume
Somethings lighten nightfall
& make a Rembrandt of a grief.
But mostly the swiftness of time is a joke;
On us.
The flame-moth is unable to laugh.
What luck
The myths are dead
Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
Life is a broken –winged bird
that can not fly
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Who are these shades we wait for
& believe will come some evening
In limousines from Heaven
The rose though it knows
Is throat less
& can not say
My mortal half laughs
The code & the message are not the same
& what is an Angel
But a Ghost in Drag?
--Stan Rice