Gone Quotes - Page 33

• When you catch what you're after, it's gone.

  Malcolm Forbes

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• Some moralist or mythological poet
  Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
  I am satisfied with that,
  Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
  Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Swans, Mirrors

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.177, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
  The entire combustible world in one small room
  As though dried straw, and if we turn about
  The bare chimney is gone black out
  Because the work had finished in that flare.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Small Rooms, Black

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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• What can be shown?
  What true love be?
  All could be known or shown
  If Time were but gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Knowledge, Love Is

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

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• An age is the reversal of an age:
  When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
  We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
  What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
  It had not touched our lives.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, What Matters, Age

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.703, Simon and Schuster

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• For men were born to pray and save:
  Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
  It's with O'Leary in the grave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Praying, Born

  "September, 1913" l. 7 (1914)

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• I know, although when looks meet
  I tremble to the bone,
  The more I leave the door unlatched
  The sooner love is gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Love Is, Doors

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

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• Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

  Albert Einstein

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.460, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Groups, Oratory

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fashion, Selfish, Independent

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• The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiration, Men, Justice

  Woodrow Wilson (1978). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment's pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Blessed, Health

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• The buffaloes are gone.
  And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

  Carl Sandburg

  Extinction, Saws, Abandonment

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A courteous, yet harrowing Grace,
  As Guest, that would be gone

  Emily Dickinson

  Grace, Would Be, Guests

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.105, Harvard University Press

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• Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
  When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
  So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
  But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

  Ovid

  Clouds, Shadow, Rays

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• While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hard Work, Thinking, Office

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• How cold the vacancy
  When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
  First sees reality. The mortal no
  Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Vacancy, Phantoms

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

  Sophocles

  Change, Loss, Night

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• Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Block, Past

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Animal, World, Earth

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• Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Information, Environment, Rich

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• For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Death, Hope

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• The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

  Aeschylus

  God, Destiny, Towns

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Men, Imagination

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• Somebody who should have been born
  is gone.
  
  Yes, woman, such logic will lead
  to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
  you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

  Anne Sexton

  Baby, Loss, Blood

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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