If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

-Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

Journey

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists,
is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive
simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses
life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel,
it embraces the contingency of things.

-Jonathan Raban, For Love and Money

Prospect

We're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.

-Yalden, Against Enjoyment

Farewell

Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.

-Byron, Fare Thee Well

Yesterday

Across the fields of yesterday
He sometimes comes to me,
A little lad just back from play-
The lad I used to be.

-T. S. Jones, Jr., Sometimes

Obsession

Set your affection on things above,
not on things on the earth.

-Bible: New Testament, Colossians 3:2.

Promise

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

-Luc Marquis De Vauvenagues,
Reflexions et Maximes