Nelly Sachs famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When sleep enters the body like smoke and man journeys into the abyss like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere, then all quarrel ceases, overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip of its rider.
-- Nelly Sachs

#Stars #Sleep #Journey
Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.
-- Nelly Sachs

#World #Metamorphosis #Homeland
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
-- Nelly Sachs

#Reality #Fairy Tale #Fairy
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
-- Nelly Sachs

#Knowing #Air #Language
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--
-- Nelly Sachs

#Children #Taken #Butterfly
We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.
-- Nelly Sachs

#Mother #Heart #Rocks
When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .
-- Nelly Sachs

#Sleep #Men #Breathing
But silence is where victims dwell.
-- Nelly Sachs

#Silence #Victim #Silence Is

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all â€“ Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.
Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Nelly Sachs famous quotes

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