Famous quotes containing the words stormy and/or present:
“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep
He hath awakened from the dream of life
Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”
—Ludwig Feuerbach (18041872)