For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
Interpretation
Life is transient and often fleeting, resembling a dream with varying experiences.
This quote by James Thomson conveys the idea that life is ephemeral and resembles a dream in its unpredictability. The 'shapes' of our experiences appear at different times, suggesting that the events and moments we encounter ebb and flow, capturing the essence of permanence in an inherently temporary existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change and uncertainty in life.
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
Beauty is the brilliance of truth.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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