418 Quotes About Classics

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.

Her insandan, içinde taşıdığı ruhun hemcinsleri arasında yürüyüp ilerlemesi, dünyanın dört bir yanını dolaşmasi beklenir; eğer o ruh hayatta yol almazsa bunu ölümden sonra yapmakla yükümlüdür. Dünyada dolanıp durmaya, vay anam vay, artık paylaşamayacağı ama dünyadan ayrılmamışken paylaşıp mutluluğa dönüştürebileceği şeyleri görmeye mahkum olur!

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travelers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

I always loved that boy as if he'd been my-- my-- my own grandfather.

The earth hangs heavy beneath me.

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning to bow to the rising sun.

I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common.

Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.