"It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage."

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Source : Robert Lowell (1964). “Poems, 1938-1949”

Robert Lowell

#Fear Quotes #Heart Quotes #Night Quotes

“Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2010). “One Touch of Topaz”, p.59, Bantam
“I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.”
“We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.”
“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”
“It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night.”

Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.1, Pan Macmillan
“I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.”
“I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.”
“The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.”

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