Wei Wang Quotes & Sayings

Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to come so near? — Sara Davidson

O Day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen. — Wang Wei

Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches. — Wang Wei

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed. — Wang Wei

I gave in to that feeling. I didn't care what it made me -weak selfish, stupid, terrible. — Alexandra Bracken

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do? — Catherynne M Valente

Seated alone by shadowy bamboos,

I strum my lyre and laugh aloud;

None know that I am here, deep in the woods;

Only the bright moon comes to shine on me.

— Wang Wei

To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed. — Wang Wei

If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups — Sean Parker

And knowing my luck ... that'll be the Engineer sign for Your mom's a skank. — Karen Traviss

A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before? — Wang Wei

Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life. — Wang Wei

I am a collector of hopes and peregrine truths, a shepherd of thoughts, ideas, projects and dreams too important not to be realized. I'm an abstract concept that has no body, no smell, no boundaries, no shape and no color. I am the omnilogos. — Michele Amitrani

If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future. — George Brandis

Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer. — Wang Wei

A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams. — Wang Wei

The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place. — Wang Wei

Tiago had heard of what some called the 'human database' or 'omnilogos', but nothing could have prepared him for this. — Michele Amitrani