Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All I can offer is this (without a single remembrance or image, or even incoherent wisp of correspondence), even so I knew, in those…

— Tanith Lee

“Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And…

— Adalbert Stifter

“What is there in thee, Man, that can be known? Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, A phantom dim of past and future wrought,…

— Coleridge

“Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us…”

— André Breton

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

“Once truth was known, it could not be unlearned, nor could it be forgotten, but lay always in the heart, a darkness for which…

— Dean Koontz

“And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the only one that remain. People may…

— Happy Positivity

“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour…

— William Wordsworth

“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core…

— Virginia Woolf

“The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be extinguished in…

— Max Frisch

“Imagination! lifting up itself Before the eye and progress of my Song Like and unfather'd vapour; here that Power In all the might of…

— William Wordsworth