Sweetness Quotes - Page 17

• The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pain, Struggle, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• Go inside the sweetness of life, catch the places where you genuinely were moved by or connected with life, and you'll find in there kind of a light that can direct you when the cacophony gets very noisy and you get confused and lost, that can direct you towards what you care about.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Confused, Care, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Sorrow, Together

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dream, Powerful, Fall

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.369, Penguin

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• My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Night, Sky

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.31, McClelland & Stewart

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• Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

  Mary Oliver

  Blue, Sunflower, Plums

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fighting, Might, Doing Nothing

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• Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!

  Patricia Polacco

  Children, Father, Book

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• Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

  Richard Russo

  Feelings, Different, Hints

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• Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one.

  Richard Matheson

  Children, Kindness, Proud

  "Fictional character: Chris Nielsen". "What Dreams May Come", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Father, Air

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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

  Thomas Gray

  Ocean, Flower, Dark

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stars, Reflection, Night

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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• At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Sight, Expression

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.

  Jean Hersey

  Fall, Blue, Purple

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• where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light?

  Louella Parsons

  Light, Critics

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• Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Solitude, Feelings, Voluptuous

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• I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.

  Lea Salonga

  Gimlets, Vodka, Gin

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Christophe's smile was a marvel of edged sweetness. When he grinned like that he looked handsomer than ever, the hint of danger just about threatening to stop a girl's heart.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Girl, Heart, Hints

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• From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Book, Thoughtful

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Sweetness Of Life, Bitterness, Depends

  Humor & Caricature magazine, September 1995.

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• I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Beautiful, Grief, Eye

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• I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Mother, Sorry, Native American

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

  Hadewijch

  Kissing, Love Is, Wrath

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