“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Pinball, 1973
“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 3.
Proverbs (1546)
“Why do so many things end in fire?”
Daniel Handler (1970) American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002)
“So many lovely things, so rare, so young,
A day begat them, and a day will end.”
Tot species, tantosque ortus variosque novatus<br/>una dies aperit, conficit ipsa dies.
Ausonius (310–395) poet
Tot species, tantosque ortus variosque novatus
una dies aperit, conficit ipsa dies.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 39; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
This poem used to be misattributed to Virgil, but is now usually ascribed to Ausonius.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)