Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer famous quotes

03-26-2025

As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!
-- Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer

#Men #Sea #Sky
Â¡LÃ¡stima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuÃ¡ndo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuÃ¡ndo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!
-- Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer

#Pride #Amor #Dignity
¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!
-- Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer

#Pride #Amor #Dignity

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer famous quotes

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