Valediction Forbidding Quotes & Sayings

John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the abyss of loss and separation. He pictures the invisible but precious bonds which link carer and cared-for, lover and beloved in an attachment relationship as slender threads of gold. — Jeremy Holmes

You never loved me and yet you are asking me to not revenge. — M.F. Moonzajer

Truly successful lives are about family. — Elizabeth Warren

I'm completely alone in the world; it frightens me to be so empty and lost. — Henrik Ibsen

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world. — Hudson Taylor

Nothing recalls the past like music ... — Madame De Stael

If we marvel at God's law, our core essence delights in keeping it. — Glenda Mathes

I'm really all right, she would think, carefully, lightly, as she pulled the key from the ignition, trying not to examine the sensation too closely or lose it with any sudden movement, as if it were a thin-filmed shiny bubble poised in her chest. — Tessa Hadley

Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984. — Ed Gillespie

The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social and economic inequality, a marked increase in severe deprivation for the poorest nations and peoples of the world, a disastrous global environment, an unstable global economy and an unprecedented bonanza for the wealthy. — Noam Chomsky

The creation of art requires descent into the dark. — Doug Dorst