Gone Quotes - Page 20

• The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  James Anthony Froude

  Flower, Essence, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24

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• All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wings, Originality, Poet

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• T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

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• A blossom full of promise is life's joy,
  That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time,
  Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light,
  And it looks flourishing--a little while--
  'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Joy, Promise

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• The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

  Joseph Addison

  Sleep, Pride, Modesty

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• Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sleep, Bed, Lines

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• Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Grief, Moving, Thinking

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.198, Faber & Faber

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• Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Country, Talking, Style

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• I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Faith, Spiritual, Core

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• There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Writing, Letters

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

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• The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

  Jennifer James

  Grief, Law, Mind

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• At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, History, Perfect

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Successful, Reign

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• It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

  Alexander Smith

  Pleasure, Characteristics

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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• When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Writing, Long

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• Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.

  Julia Peterkin

  Quilts, Squares, Long

  Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

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• It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

  Juvenal

  Passages, Folly, Sheer

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• Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.

  Bill Vaughan

  Struggle, Race, Dust

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• Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Believe, Emotional

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• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

  Emma Goldman

  Army, America, Joy

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• Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

  William Cowper

  Art, Farewell, Sound

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1849). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author”, p.484

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• The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

  Alexander Pope

  Flower, Fruit

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• Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.

  Pablo Neruda

  Yesterday, Doubt, Today

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• It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

  John Heywood

  Horse, Doors, Barns

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