Tenderness comes with age, bitterness, as well - age reveals everything in the obscure room of the time.Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about age, olderness, time
You cannot hold everybody in your arms. You can hold in your arms only a man. If that man is the loved one, then you can say that you are holding the entire world in your arms.Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about love, man, world
To see well you need to keep your eyes wide open. To see even better, you need to close them.Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about opinion, need, eyes
The objects from childhood's house are becomming in time icons.Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about childhood, objects, home, house, time
In jungle, only the lion dies of old age. The other animals are dying eaten by lion.Quote by Paul Louis Lampert about aphorisms, olderness, animals, age, old, man
I've always been surprised at the degree of success of The Mirror and the Lamp and duration of esteem for it. I had no reason to expect in 1953 that it would appeal to more than a specialized group interested in literary criticism.Quote by M. H. Abrams about criticism, literary critic, reason
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.Quote by Quincy Jones
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it...Quote by Gilbert Parker about opinion, purpose, light, reason, spirit, being, world
I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people.Quote by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa about opinion, solitude, companies, things, people
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.Quote by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa about change
My night light is dim while RightWords lamp is bright so I write my quotes tonight.Quote by Eleanor R. Hampton about literature, night, light