Famous quotes containing the words double, summer and/or time:
“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
—Oliver Edwards (1711–1791)