Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven
Tis gone.
Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (18941961)
“Often on bare rocky carries the trail was so indistinct that I repeatedly lost it, but when I walked behind him I observed that he could keep it almost like a hound, and rarely hesitated, or, if he paused a moment on a bare rock, his eye immediately detected some sign which would have escaped me. Frequently we found no path at all at these places, and were to him unaccountably delayed. He would only say it was ver strange.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)