Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

On the feet, on the ground, I have all the bases covered.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

An island of surety in a changing world.

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

The insecure way is the secure way.

One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like, 'Hey, there's an asshole.'

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.