Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

“God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Our emotions
Are only “incidents”
In the effort to keep day and night together.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)