“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”
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Jonathan Franzen50
novelist 1959Related quotes
“Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.”
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) English children's writer
Morning Has Broken (1931)
Context: Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them springing
Fresh from the Word!
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Morning Has Broken, was widely popularized by the Cat Stevens version on Teaser and the Firecat (1971), but was actually written by Eleanor Farjeon in 1931. · A performance by Cat Stevens (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sSEkZ86ts <br class="br">Misattributed
“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux
Variant: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
“The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers.”
John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 45 (p. 135; chapter title)
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author