Pepper Lonely Hearts

Famous quotes containing the words pepper, lonely and/or hearts:

    “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
    A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
    Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers (l. 1–4)

    “Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One’s relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Only I discern—
    Infinite passion, and the pain
    Of finite hearts that yearn.”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)