Anne Reeve Aldrich famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Insomnia #World #Oblivion
I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Laughter #Flower #Sorrow
Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#World #Littles #Glad
Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Writing #Hands #Paper
I bought the sweetness with this pain.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Pain #Sweetness
All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Art #Hands #Thee
I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Space #Dawn #Earth
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich

#Song #War #Writing

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.
I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

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