Age Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever…

— John Milton

“There is also a keen pleasure (and after all, what else should the pursuit of science produce?) in meeting the riddle of the initial…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the…

— Joanne Greenberg

“We have so theologized the passion and death of this sacred man that we no longer see the slow unraveling of His tissue, the…

— Brennan Manning

Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant…

— Andrew Marvell

Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an…

— Philip Larkin

“when serpents bargain for the right to squirm and the sun strikes to gain a living wage - when thorns regard their roses with…

— E. E. Cummings

The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening…

— Samuel Beckett

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for…

— Sylvia Plath