Days To Come Quotes - Page 2

• Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mirrors, Darkness, Use

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

  David Markson

  Morning, Emptiness, Anticipation

  David Markson (2016). “This is Not a Novel and Other Novels”, p.216, Counterpoint

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• Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

  George R. R. Martin

  Memories, Men, Sea

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3526, Bantam

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• The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

  James A. Garfield

  Christian, Running, Song

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Stars, Moon, Yellow

  Kenneth Grahame (1914). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.17, Hayes Barton Press

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• In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants
  and hold the world in arms grown strong with love
  And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,
  But this will not be one of them.

  Brian Andreas

  Strong, Giants, World

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• We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.13, The Floating Press

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• I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

  George W. Bush

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Want

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