Asks Quotes - 4
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Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
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More Asks Quotes
You're not going to ask me that and if you did I'd pretend that you didn't because everybody and their mother plus their dog and cat and their goldfish asks me that.
Meat Loaf— Response to the question "Where did you get the name "Meat Loaf"?" in an interview with Gary Brunnet (22 August 1993)
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka— 13
Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.
— Charles Seymour Robinson, p. 584. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Calmer than midnight's deepest bushIs the sun-bright Summer nooning,With its cloudy shadows seeking rest,That fall on the hillside swooning.Great Night with its solemn starry eyes,Over Day's gate asks us whither We go,what our password is,To the camp beyond the river. ...
ethel lynn beers— "Noonday Rest" (1869; published in All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems, 1879).
What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth? Most men eddy about Here and there eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl’d in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and, then they die Perish; and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost Ocean, have swell’d, Foam’d for a moment, and gone.
Matthew Arnold— St. 6. (Rugby Chapel (1867))
