Meindert DeJong Quotes & Sayings

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle - it is in you. — Meindert DeJong

If you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true — Meindert DeJong

Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you - for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere. — Meindert DeJong