Anne Frank Quotes, Dark Quotes, Wings Quotes

Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Dark Quotes , Wings Quotes

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Light Quotes

We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Order Quotes , Wings Quotes

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Air Quotes , Wings Quotes

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Wings Quotes , White Quotes

Music gives a soul to the universe.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Music Quotes , Wings Quotes

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Wings Quotes , Singing Quotes

Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

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Tags : Aga Khan III Quotes , Life Quotes , Wings Quotes

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Wings Quotes , Lasts Quotes

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Light Quotes , Wings Quotes

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Song Quotes , Wings Quotes

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Wings Quotes

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eye Quotes , Wings Quotes

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Wings Quotes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

Frienship is eros...without wings

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Wings Quotes

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Men Quotes , Wings Quotes

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

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Tags : Aberjhani Quotes , Healing Quotes , Wings Quotes