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“In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.”

Ends Moments Future Tired Wings Fragile Resignation Glitter Premonition Rouge Deluge

Author:Jackson Browne

“History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.”

Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

“Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals -- you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.”

People World Way Feels Kind Littles Made Moments Seems Able Grows Animal Tomorrow Wings Kingdoms Realising Butterfly Anticipation Worldview Leather Stink Butterfly Wings Sherbet

Author:Russell Brand

“Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.”

Moments Joy Hours Sweet Flower Wings Yesterday Passing Passings Bliss Our Time Breeze Transient Fading Gilded Departing Vapour Passing Moments

Book:Poems on Various Subjects

Source: Poems on Various Subjects

“Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.”

Moments Time Bears Wings

Author:Joanna Baillie

“the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.”

Humans Long Moments Reality Sides Imagination Human Nature Lows Wings Notes Curse Petty Crushed Horde Withering

Author:Gertrude Atherton