Max Muller Quotes

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

We are created by being destroyed.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

No Victory Without Suffering

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t.

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.