“You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.” — Robert Aickman, Painted Devils
Tag: hopes
Quote of the Day
“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?” — Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Quote of the Day
“When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.” — William Butler Yeats, Reveries over Childhood and Youth
Quote of the Day
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” — Francis Bacon, Of Adversity