Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquillity will return eventually.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.
The Beardmore Glacier is not difficult in fine weather, but on our return we did not get a single completely fine day; this with a sick companion enormously increased our anxieties.
I dreamed that shoulder to shoulder with my companions I was returning to the village after a full day of work, in the evening light, happy, in such a dream.
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
“There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two opposing waters that have never isthmused.”
Springtime is upon us. The birds celebrate her return with festive song, and murmuring streams are softly caressed by the breezes
“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets.”
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”