Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

Coming to Old Trafford gave me a new lease of life.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

The sun is new each day.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

It does feel that TS5 gave me such a new lease of life.

With destruction comes renovation.

I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn!

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.

I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

To be worn out is to be renewed.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.