The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
John GalsworthyHis natural taciturnity was in his favour; nothing could be more calculated to give people, especially people with property (Soames had no other clients), the impression that he was a safe man. And he was safe. [...] How could he fall, when his soul abhorred circumstances which render a fall possible - a man cannot fall off the floor!
John GalsworthyHe might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!
John GalsworthyStichwörter: classics
So this wonderful city
Has only dead ashes for me.
Really," said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.
John GalsworthyStichwörter: fate
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
John GalsworthyNot the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
John GalsworthyStichwörter: dog
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
John GalsworthyStichwörter: nature yearning meaning spring
We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
John GalsworthyTo every man of great age - to Sir Wlater Bentham himself - the idea of suicide has once at least been present in the ante-room of his soul; on the threshold, waiting to enter, held out from the inmost chamber by some chance reality, some vague fear, some painful hope.
The Man of Property, p. 363
Stichwörter: the-man-of-property
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