There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
A. E. HousmanRead
When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is a journey that should be actively engaged in until the very end, as there will be time to rest afterward.
This quote by A. E. Housman emphasizes the importance of living life fully and actively engaging in our experiences. It suggests that life is a journey filled with tasks and adventures that deserve our energy and attention, and that rest can wait until our journey is complete, reminding us to not take our time here for granted.
Themes
LifeJourneyExperienceSleepRest
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about living life to the fullest.
More from A. E. Housman
All quotes βWho made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. HousmanRead
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
A. E. HousmanRead
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
A. E. HousmanRead
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HousmanRead
Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking_x000D_ _x000D_ Spins the heavy world around.
A. E. HousmanRead
Similar quotes
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
Alan BennettRead
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
Charlotte BronteRead
I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting
William ShakespeareRead
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
Florida Scott-MaxwellRead
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
Benjamin CarsonRead
I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.
Arnold PalmerRead