Lying

Famous quotes containing the word lying:

“If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“the grave,
so humble, so willing to be beat upon
with its awful lettering and
the body lying underneath
without an umbrella.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)