Georgia Douglas Johnson famous quotes

07-08-2025

Your world is as big as you make it.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#World #Aging #Bigs
Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Men #Thinking #Way
I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Love #Laughter #Lying
The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Stars #Fall #Heart
Rise with the hour for which you were made.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Hours #Made
The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Strong #Demand #Fool
I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Gratitude #Wall #Soul
I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Dream #Prayer #Heart
I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson

#Wings #Ease #Breeze

A divided heart loses both worlds.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.
I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

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