The Sorrowful World.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Life; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 189.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 566.
“We were making sand castles. Now we swim in the sea that swept them away”
What Ever Happened to Urbanism? http://www.arhns.uns.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/Arch432_koolhaas.pdf The Monicelli Press, New York, 1995, pp. 959/971.
Source: The Mermaid's Purse: poems by Ted Hughes
“Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually”
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually..”
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Variant: Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually
The Green Mile (1996)
Context: I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin' to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I cain't.
"Little Things" in the Myrtle (1845). This poem came to be published uncredited as a children's rhyme and hymn in many 19th century magazines and books, sometimes becoming variously attributed to Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Daniel Clement Colesworthy, and Frances S. Osgood, but the earliest publications of it clearly are those of Carney, according to Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) by E. R. Hanson, as well as Familiar Quotations 9th edition (1906) edited by John Bartlett, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth Knowles and Angela Partington, and The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), ed. Fred R. Shapiro.
