Days

Famous quotes containing the word days:

    “Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “When you are rich, always remember the days when you were poor, so that there won’t be poor times when you have to recall the days when you were rich.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The others died, the luck of it blurting through them.
    I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella
    and oblivion would not kiss me. For three days it
    was thus.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)