Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
Interpretation
This quote expresses relief and triumph over difficult times and existential struggles.
In this quote by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker reflects on overcoming a significant crisis or challenge in life, likening the struggle of living to a fever that has finally been conquered. It captures a moment of profound relief and gratitude, suggesting that after enduring hardship and illness, there is a sense of liberation and clarity that comes with overcoming such adversities.
In practice
During a speech at a graduation ceremony, this quote can be used to inspire graduates who have faced challenges.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922β¦ My life is all like that.
The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.
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