Quotes
Quotes about End
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. [Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf. Und wer Vorderste ist, fuhrt die Heerde.]
On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day.
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
Injustice in the end produces independence. [Fr., L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.]
Independence now: and Independence forever.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thingâ that's the Lord's test.
Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
The essence of love begins when infatuation ends.
