Declara O De Amor Quotes & Sayings

Girls, be good to these spirits of music and poetry
that breast your threshold with their scented gifts.
Lift the lyre, clear and sweet, they leave with you.
As for me, this body is now so arthritic
I cannot play, hardly even hold the instrument.
Can you believe my white hair was once black?
And oh, the soul grows heavy with the body.
Complaining knee-joints creak at every move.
To think I danced as delicate as a deer!
Some gloomy poems came from these thoughts:
useless: we are all born to lose life,
and what is worse, girls, to lose youth.
The legend of the goddess of the dawn
I'm sure you know: how rosy Eos
madly in love with gorgeous young Tithonus
swept him like booty to her hiding-place
but then forgot he would grow old and grey
while she in despair pursued her immortal way. — Sappho

When I wake up every morning, I think to myself, Today my life will begin in earnest. — Gaito Gazdanov

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side. — Matthew Henry

But peace is my heart: I know it is. — William Faulkner

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss. — Brian Spellman

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. (Genesis 50:20 NASB) — Max Lucado

I think we killed Beck, though," Quinn said when I released his mouth. "Beck," I murmured. Beck said something into the bedding that I couldn't understand. "I think he said he wants more," Quinn said softly. Beck turned his face until his cheek was pressed flat against the bed. "I said you guys are fucking heavy." Quinn — Sloane Kennedy

And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin — Bob Dylan

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones. — Augusten Burroughs

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My stories aren't for everyone - they were never meant to be - but — Kevin J. Anderson