Futility Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image “For time is inches And the heart's changes, Where ghost has haunted Lost and wanted.” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Futility Ghost Heart Inches Lost Time Wanted
“A ghost has all the time to reach for love, but never can. As a person has little time to reach for love, and… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of… — Tom Piccirilli Copy Share Image
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I think what it is a condition of human - of love. How important that is and integral that is too everybody even a… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes… — Nathan Ballingrud Copy Share Image
“Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And… — Cole Swensen Copy Share Image
“What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? A moment of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“It's not good to dig in the past, raise the ghost up from the grave, and have it walk with the flesh.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred,… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Uite, daca-mi strang sufletul, nu se prinde nimic in el. Oricum, am ajuns departe, foarte departe. O mai fi ceva? Arborii cresc, le dau… — Marin Sorescu Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“ In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to not matter,… — Miller Rory Copy Share Image
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
