Life Quote by Alejo Carpentier

“When memory of bygone days My spirit would detain, Down long and often trodden ways I travel the past again. Above your house are…

— Anonymous

“the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment…

— Richard Wilbur

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth

“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated…

— Guy Sajer

“We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is…

— Valerie Martin

“Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same…

— Maurice Druon

“Tis but a day we sojourn here below, And all the gain we get is grief and woe, Then, leaving our life's riddles all…

— Omar Khayyám

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be…

— Hermann Hesse

“His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had…

— Edith Wharton

“and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to…

— George Eliot