Quote

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

George William Russell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George William Russell
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: April 10
Died: 1935
Died: July 17
Journalist
Painter
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
A. E. Russell
A. E.
AE
AE [George William Russell]
Easier
Joy
Forgive
Told
Forgiving
Read
Thee
Found
Sorrow
Spirit
Tears
Better
Mystery
Understood

More quotes by George William Russell

Image
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
George William Russell
Image
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
George William Russell
Image
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
George William Russell
Image
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
George William Russell
Image
Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.
George William Russell
Image
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William Russell
Image
You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
George William Russell
Image
Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.
George William Russell
Image
A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.
George William Russell
Image
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.
George William Russell
Image
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
George William Russell
Image
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
George William Russell