Swept Away Quotes

• Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Tides, Endure

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Time, Passing By

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Obscurity, Violence, Pushing

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.38

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• Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

  Robert Frost

  Wedding, Two, Speed

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, May, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1982). “Collected Works”

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• All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Air

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected works in one volume”

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• Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Space, Mystery

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• While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Morning, Spring, Winter

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• Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, Sex, Philosophical

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• When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

  Honore de Balzac

  Fall, People, Rich

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• Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.

  Frank Lowy

  Strong, Giving Up, Moving

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• Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Time

  Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (2010). “Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Ideas, People, Movement

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2005.

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• You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Mother, Children, Grief

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Honesty, Attitude, Spring

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.112

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• Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Break Through, Space

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• The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

  Richard A. Proctor

  Illustration, Long, Records

  "Saturn and its System". Book by Richard Anthony Proctor, (2nd edition), Chapter 2, p. 32, 1882.

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• The people will not rest until the Pahlavi rule has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have disappeared. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Long, People, Satanic

  Ruhollah Khomeini's response to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's announcement of elections (August 1978), as quoted in "The Shah's Divided Land", Time Magazine, September 18, 1978.

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• The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our own time.  The hallmark of this attitude is its sense that the certitudes and unshakable basic assumptions of former ages have been swept away, that they have been tested and found wanting, that they have been discredited as cheap and somewhat childish illusions.

  Martin Esslin

  Attitude, Reflection, Age

  "The Theatre of the Absurd". Book by Martin Esslin, 1961.

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.

  Washington Irving

  Weed, Roots, Tree

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wicked, Would Be, Earth

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.116

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• The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Ideas, Moral

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• The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness.

  Marc Gafni

  Letting Go, Religious, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 26, 2015

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• This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Home, America

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