Morrow Quotes
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The desire of the moth for the star, of the night for the morrow. The devotion to something afar from the sphere of our sorrow.
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More Morrow Quotes
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles— Line 943. (Trachiniae)
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 22:13.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 6:33-4
Wer nie sein Brot mitTr a« nen aÞ, Wer nie die kummervollen N a« chte, Auf seinem Bette weinen saÞ, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen M a« chte. Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow He knows ye not, ye heavenly powers.
— 1795-6 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (translated by Carlyle in1824 as Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship).
The sorrow of true love is a great sorrow And true love parting blackens a bright morrow.
— 1917 'Last Poem'.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day.
edward bulwer-lytton— Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions (1873), Book I, Ch. 8.
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
abba eban— Abba Eban wrote "Israel's Dilemmas: An Opportunity Squandered" in Stephen J. Roth, ed. "The Impact of the Six-Day War: A Twenty-Year Assessment"
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
john donne— The Good Morrow, stanza 2.
Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love...
hermann hesse— p. 88 (Gertrude (1910))
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
samuel johnson— Chapter 1. (The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759))
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— One Word is Too Often Profaned, st. 2.
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Part VII. Last St.
Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 2, line 185.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day.
Lytton— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions (1873), Book I, Ch. 8.
Thrift and foresight are among the chief teachings of all missionaries to the poor and the present day world has little sympathy for any parent whether a Harold Skimpole, a Mrs. Jellyby, a Jean Jacques Rousseau, or a Leo Tolstoy who for any cause whatsoever feels that he should give no thought for the morrow and that his children may live like the fowls of the air.
— also see Charles Dickens, Bleak House
— p.60
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?
james hogg— James Hogg, The Broken Heart (1829).
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
william shakespeare— Said by Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene 2, line 184.
The morrow was a bright September morn; the earth was beautiful as if new-born. There was that nameless splendor everywhere, that wild exhilaration in the air, which makes the passers in the city street congratulate each other as they meet.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), Part I, The Student's Tale, The Falcon of Sir Federigo, line 135.
Days, that need borrow No part of their good morrow From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Richard Crashaw— Richard Crashaw, Wishes to His Supposed Mistress.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
— Matthew, VI. 34.
Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
— I Corinthians 15:32 (King James Version).
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
— Horace, Carmina, Book I. 11. 8.
The desire of the moth for the star , Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow .
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, in Shelley's Music: Fantasy, Authority, and the Object Voice, p.122
I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
neal a. maxwell— Deposition of a Disciple, 1976, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 5
I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
— Deposition of a Disciple, 1976, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 5
Charles Lindbergh and Anne morrow Lindbergh
— From Psalm 139:9.
He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1798 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', pt.7.
