Busy Quote by Thomas Gray

To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

— Thomas Gray

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and…

— Charles Baudelaire

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary…

— Edward Bellamy

The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has…

— Paul Goodman

Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

— William Butler Yeats

“When people are just drifting along the tides of life and can’t see the shores of reality anymore, they may experience someday the irresistible…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them…

— Charles Spurgeon

There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing hole Where…

— Edgar Guest

“This sense of being out of time has driven thousands of people from their homes into moving-picture theaters where new universes appear before them,…

— William Saroyan

One day, out of darkness, they shall meet, and read life's meaning in each other's eyes

— Anonymous

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears,…

— Matthew Arnold

“the men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother.”

— Joseph Conrad