“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.” SoulEnoughLightLyingNightHeavenBlackMemoriesBehindsHellSeaRefuseBitterMy SoulDawnSandConsolationHeaven And HellEnough Love Author:Madison Cawein
“Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.” SunClearCuttingSeaFoodHugeEssenceCookingSurfaceSettingBitterSettingsRisingCulinarySmoothLemonsIlluminatingMembranes Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!” I CanWaterSeaAtheismDangerWindPositive AtheismBitterPleasantFancyShoreWrecksBudBuffetsMurmuring Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!” IfsThinkingLifeDreamLife IsSeaSweetWaveBitterSmoothAwakenedSlapSweet Dreams Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.” NightLosesMemoriesSeaSadnessReturnSadAmbitionFlowDelightHungryBitterHeelsGloomWithered Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose
“The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?” IfsWorldHumansMadeMomentsDesireLove IsFireSeaPureGainsFortuneCarefulBitterBoatBuddhistBurningHuman LifeFlamesRealmsTaoismShoreBe CarefulFierceGreedyPitsDrowningCalamityGood FortuneVaryPonds Author:Zicheng Hong
“When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.” IfsGivingReasonBigsEarthFacesHeavenSeaTearsWindGive MeMadMovedBlowTongueRageBitterEaseLoserThreateningWoeSighWeepingOverflowDrunkardsBowelsDeluge Author:William Shakespeare
“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.” ForgetSeaPersonalityLetting GoInfiniteBitterAttributesVoidUnchangingUnchangeable Author:H. P. Lovecraft