Bear True Faith

Famous quotes containing the words bear, true and/or faith:

    “I saw a staring virgin stand
    Where holy Dionysus died,
    And tear the heart out of his side,
    And lay the heart upon her hand
    And bear that beating heart away;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The only true madness is loneliness,
    the monotonous voice in the skull
    that never stops
    because never heard.”
    —John Montague (b. 1929)

    “After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)