Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
We live not to ourselves, our work is life.
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
I want to live, and die with you.
I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.