Quotes - Sam (vulpix_vendetta) (Perth, WA, Australia) Showing 1-30 of 42

#1

“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness, subjective-experience

511 likes

#2

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall”
― virginia woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

151 likes

#3

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

4548 likes

#4

“Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
― William Shakespeare, Love Poems and Sonnets

tags: alzheimer-s, love-story, thrillers

12 likes

#5

“Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: sonnet

5 likes

#6

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: education, lifelong-learning

1631 likes

#7

“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry, yeats

571 likes

#8

“No man is an island, entire of itself.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

tags: connectedness, island, isolation, mankind

86 likes

#9

“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

62 likes

#10

“For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

tags: life

1006 likes

#11

“Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

tags: chaucer, love, relationships

43 likes

#12

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
― Lord Byron

794 likes

#13

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

2317 likes

#14

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12721 likes

#15

“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom

172 likes

#16

“I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.”
― Harold Bloom

30 likes

#17

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: men, mountains, rocks

5060 likes

#18

“No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...”
― Emily Bronte

55 likes

#19

“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
― W. B. Yeats

437 likes

#20

“Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.”
― W.B. Yeats, Dyland Thomas T.S. Eliot

167 likes

#21

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

3281 likes

#22

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

714 likes

#23

“You are the music while the music lasts.”
― T.S. Eliot

621 likes

#24

“The rest, is silence.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

253 likes

#25

“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: afterlife, death-and-dying, hamlet, shakespeare

2074 likes

#26

“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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#27