My Favourite Quotes – Part 3
19 May 2018
“If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane” (John Green)
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within” (Tennyson)
“And all that’s best of dark and bright/ Meet in her aspect and her eyes” (Byron)
“Life is but a day, a fragile dewdrop on its perilous way” (Keats)
“I am not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship” (Louisa May Alcott)
“If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane” (John Green)
“Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional” (Walt Disney)
“But there is that within me which shall tire/ Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire” (Byron)
“But to see her was to love her/ Love but her, and love forever” (Burns)
“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music” (Keats)
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden” (Frances Hodgson Bennett)
“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic – the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes feels with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone” (Charles de Lint)
“Hope is the thing with the feathers/ That perches in the soul,/
And sings the tune without words,/ And never stops at all” (Emily Dickinson)
“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined” (John Green)
“For jazz is orgasm, it is the music of orgasm, good orgasm and bad, and so it spoke across a nation” (Norman Mailer)
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time” (Kerouac)
“Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that you are”
(Mandy Hale)
“Fill your paper with the breathing of your heart” (Wordsworth)
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars” (Kerouac)
“Evil is unspectacular, and always human” (Tennyson)
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing” (Burns)
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations” (John Green)
“Tis not too late to seek a newer world” (Tennyson)
“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on” (Byron)
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” (Wilde)
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned” (J.M. Barrie)
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced” (Keats)
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry” (Kerouac)
