“That I am one and many is at the heart of my dis-ease
Yet I am one and many”
Happy Rhodes (1965) American singer-songwriter
"One And Many"
Find Me (2007)
“One goes many miles to be at ease.”
Per bene star si scende molte miglia.
Canzone 105, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869) French literary critic
Le désespoir lui-même, pour peu qu'il se prolonge, devient une sorte d'asile dans lequel on peut s'asseoir et reposer.
"Vie de Joseph Delorme" (1829), cited from Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve (Paris: Charpentier, 1840) p. 16; Mardy Grothe Oxymoronica (London: HarperCollins, 2004) p. 201.
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
Sandra Bullock (1964) American actress and producer
Parade interview (2009)
Context: I know I'm not easy to deal with. I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level. I'm aware that I can be annoying.
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 29.
Context: With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.
“And then a light winked like an eye.
. . . And very many miles away”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
Context: p>Was it not better so to lie?
The fight was done. Even gods tire
Of fighting... My way was the wrong.
Now I should drift and drift along
To endless quiet, golden peace...
And let the tortured body cease.And then a light winked like an eye.
... And very many miles away
A girl stood at a warm, lit door,
Holding a lamp. Ray upon ray
It cloaked the snow with perfect light.
And where she was there was no night
Nor could be, ever. God is sure,
And in his hands are things secure.</p
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)
“If you decide to walk for others be prepared to carry them for many miles.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
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William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) English mathematician and philosopher
"Energy and Force" (Mar 28, 1873)
“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake”
Sting (1951) English musician
"Synchronicity II"
Synchronicity (1983)
Context: Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now, looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake