Quotes for All
The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them It dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say. Eugen Herrigel
As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. Ernst Haeckel
The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful … Read more
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who’ll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam’s architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain’s heartbeat in his hand. e. e. cummings
See, here’s a shadow found; the human nature Is made th’ umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may’st safely lie. Francis Quarles
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi
It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her. Frances Hardinge
The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart. Fitz-Greene Halleck
And that taught me you can’t have anything, you can’t have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It’s like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it – but when we do the sunbeam moves on to … Read more
My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He’ll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He’ll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, — And I wish … Read more