words that ease the ache

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words: wait and hope.” - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo 

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” - Carl Sagan 

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 

“You are a burning lamp to me, a flame / The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you / High in my hand against whatever darkness.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Lamp and the Bell

“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” - Star Wars V.: The Empire Strikes Back

“There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.” - Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now, for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” - Vincent Van Gogh 

‘Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin did not die. They simply became music.” - Westworld 

“A young man on a nearby rooftop released his pigeons, like dreams, into the dawn.” - Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.” The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984 (dir. Rob Epstein)

“Imagine! Imagine! The wild and wondrous journeys still to be ours.” - Mary Oliver, Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me 

“At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, / You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. / And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, / And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.” - Rudyard Kipling 

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away; that’s when you get shooting stars.” - Vladimir Nabovok 

“How far a little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world!” - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice  

“But then it passed, as all things do.” - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Goodnight and great love to you. We see the same stars.” - George Mallory to his wife Ruth during the Everest mission, 1921