(21 quotes found)
“When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.”
Sara Teasdale
“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise”
“No one worth possessing - Can be quite possessed”
“There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.”
“I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes”
“I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy”
“A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring”
“Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.”
“Oh better than the minting of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.”
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
