Paul Scarron quotes

  • He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.
    -- Paul Scarron

    #Return

  • Traveller, let your step be light, So that sleep these eyes may close, For poor Scarron, till to-night, Ne'er was able e'en to doze.
    -- Paul Scarron

    #Sleep #Eye #Night

  • Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

  • Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

  • Trust God in the dark until the light returns.

  • The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

  • That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

  • I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

  • Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

  • All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

  • Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

  • Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.