truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
Art, not unlike raising children. . . may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
Mother's love outlives everything
There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U. S. A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question. . . awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
Man builds no structure which outlives a book.
