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William Shakespeare3 quotes
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard. What’s done is done. — William Shakespeare · 1616True is it that we have seen better days. — William Shakespeare · 1616Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear. — William Shakespeare · 1616Alfred Tennyson1 quote
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847Charles Dickens1 quote
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens · 1859James Joyce1 quote
They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939Jean-Jacques Rousseau1 quote
Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1761Joseph Conrad1 quote
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort—to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires—and expires, too soon, too soon—before life itself. — Joseph Conrad · 1898Marcus Aurelius1 quote
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. — Marcus Aurelius · 2000Petrarch1 quote
O you who hear within these scattered verses
The sound of sighs with which I fed my heart
In my first errant youthful days when I
In part was not the man I am today. — Petrarch · 1352Randall 'Pink' Floyd1 quote
All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself. — Randall 'Pink' Floyd · 1993Satchel Paige1 quote
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. — Satchel Paige · 1953Sir Walter Scott1 quote
Look back, and smile at perils past! — Sir Walter Scott · 1813Tinkerbell1 quote
The world was ours. We could do everything or nothing. All it had to be was anything 'cause it was always us. — Tinkerbell · 1991Tom1 quote
Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you’ve had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again. — Tom · 2009Warren Schmidt1 quote
I know we're all pretty small in the big scheme of things, and I suppose the most you can hope for is to make some kind of difference, but what kind of difference have I made? What in the world is better because of me? — Warren Schmidt · 2002