Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I count only the hours that are serene.

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world. - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,

I am moved by the light.

Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.