Quotes - Sam (Coimbatore, 25, India) Showing 1-30 of 49

#1

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

5063 likes

#2

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

tags: philosophy, wayfinding

3478 likes

#3

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu

2099 likes

#4

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

tags: change, fear, poetry

362 likes

#5

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5859 likes

#6

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: disappointment

819 likes

#7

“WINE comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and sigh.”
― W.B. Yeats

439 likes

#8

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry

444 likes

#9

“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: love, wine

177 likes

#10

“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
― William Butler Yeats

115 likes

#11

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

tags: beauty, happiness, joy

1016 likes

#12

“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”
― John Keats

352 likes

#13

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

13918 likes

#14

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: apothegm, optimism

5041 likes

#15

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

2715 likes

#16

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

417 likes

#17

“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

tags: behavior, indifference, love, unrequited-love

156 likes

#18

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
― Cesare Pavese

tags: joy

81 likes

#19

“There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.”
― Cesare Pavese

34 likes

#20

“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
― Cesare Pavese

30 likes