Nameless Quotes (page 3)

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• greatness
• enough
• words

... And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them. Rainer Maria Rilke

• family
• tree
• end

We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree. Emma Bull

• world
• below
• far

Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. J. R. R. Tolkien

• men
• forget
• immortality

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. Wendell Phillips

• alone
• eyes
• you me

Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless? J. R. R. Tolkien

• grace
• music
• alone

Music resembles poetry, in each. Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. Alexander Pope

• life
• humanity
• manly

It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot. Robert E. Howard

• girl
• movie
• girls

... among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face. Roberto Bolano

• daily
• helpful
• light

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives. Audre Lorde

• writing
• people
• fines

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people. William Styron

• end
• door
• greatness

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession. John Huston

• life
• best
• little

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth

• manly
• kindness
• best

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth

• god
• manly
• live

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'. James Martineau

• people
• war
• world

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. Edwin Way Teale