Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.


Kobayashi Issa

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stop along the way,
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We sate on the terrace. Again gazing at the moon. I don't understand women's obsession with the moon...
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People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,
with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
FRANZ KAFKA
Walk on with hope in your heart,
and you'll never walk alone
SHAH RUKH KHAN
dark say:
berthenia belle
never forget
the tongue hid name
CATHLEEN MARGARET
Over his shoulder, she saw Skulduggery walk in. "Oh, hell," she muttered.
Wreath's smile reapp...
DEREK LANDY
those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
No, my dog used to gaze at me,
paying me the attention I need,
the attention required
PABLO NERUDA
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends.
Past t...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers...
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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se...
ELIE WIESEL
In peace we play and freedom ring,
Now let us enjoy a mantra to sing,
Down here we know ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
Assume Nothing!
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!
Never Forget!
Live e...
J.K. KELLY
God made a beauteous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway<...
ROBERT FROST
Walk

Million miles away
Your signal in the distance
To whom it may concern
FOO FIGHTERS
Rainbows introduce us to reflections
of different beautiful possibilities
so we never forg...
ABERJHANI
Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON
Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beauti...
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget your...
KAMAND KOJOURI
We have traveled.
Now you will be the path
I will walk I will walk
Over you.
PETER HELLER
Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of fl...
KABIR
No, Paige. I am trying to help you.”
“Go to hell.”
“I already exist on a level of ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON
He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
AMY CARMICHAEL
stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers o...
RUPI KAUR
What the hell, Cade? You knew, and you never thought . . . ‘Hey, maybe I should tell my
broth...
MAISEY YATES
The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories
Never with our footsteps
MIMI NOVIC
Do we have a plan?'
'We fight like hell.'
'Good plan.
ALYXANDRA HARVEY
Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais."

Samuel BECKETT, En a...
SAMUEL BECKETT
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Never forget the past
To lead the future best
SENTHIL BABU
You’re the world to me,” I whisper onto
her lips. “I hope you never forget that.”
...
J.A. REDMERSKI
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,
Where we are tortured and remain forever.<...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place, for where we are is hell,
A...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The garden where you sit
Has never a need of flowers,
For you are the blossoms
And on...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES
Never Flinch.' A cold whisper in her ear. 'Never fear. And never, ever forget.'
The girl nodded...
JAY KRISTOFF
I don’t know why everyone
is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist. KAMAND KOJOURI
What do we do know?(Peeta)
I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)
I don't want to forget.(Pe...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I ...
EMILY DICKINSON
...bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch."

Descripti...
SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE
In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with lov...
BRIAN ANDREAS
What happens when we get back?
I don't know. I guess we try and forget.
I don't want to fo...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I think everything that happened in Idris-Valentine, Max, Hodge, even Sebastian-I kept shoving it al...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Walk straight ahead
Listen to no one
Trust not in the walls or doorways
For they will...
RENéE PAULE
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Valentine Weather

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together...
EDWIN MORGAN
Forget the suffering
You caused others.
Forget the suffering
Others caused you.
...
CZESłAW MIłOSZ
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left. DR. SEUSS
Where will we go?"
"I hear hell is particularly nice at this time of year.
SARAH J. MAAS
Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?"
"Still old and blind," she snarled.
"An...
LEIGH BARDUGO
The men watched as Annwyl the Bloody took a stand against something from their darkest nightmares. T...
G.A. AIKEN
So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?” I asked.
“Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. ...
ILONA ANDREWS
On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the cit...
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You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs.
I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m se...
E.L. JAMES
Do you forget that I am your sister?”
“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to for...
GEORGETTE HEYER
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!
KOBAYASHI ISSA
In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees...
Strangers are like friends
KOBAYASHI ISSA
Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.
KOBAYASHI ISSA
What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
KOBAYASHI ISSA
Arise from sleep, old cat,
And with great yawns and stretchings...
Amble out for love
KOBAYASHI ISSA
Giddy grasshopper
Take care...do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop
KOBAYASHI ISSA
The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet--
KOBAYASHI ISSA
Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.
KOBAYASHI ISSA
In the cherry blossom's shade
there's no such thing
as a stranger.
KOBAYASHI ISSA
Well we're waiting here in Allentown,
For the Pennsylvania we never found,
For the promise...
BILLY JOEL
I realized

June had never been
just a month

music...
never just a tr...
SANOBER KHAN
The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That...
ROBERT FROST
I would love to say
that you
make me
weak in the knees
but
to be quite upfr...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON
Poetry is jealous of you tonight,
for as soon as I come
to pen a few words,
your p...
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
No matter how wide the road you walk it one foot at a time"

RjS
RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN
Never give up.
Never give up on your hopes.
Never give up on your dreams.
Never give ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
HARPER LEE
Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?

Roarke: You'...
J.D. ROBB
All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other mat...
NEIL GAIMAN
Been given 24 hours
To tie up loose ends
To make amends
His eyes said it all
I st...
JEM
Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;
...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;<...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
What the hell are those?" Zach pushed at my foot with his finger.

"My boots."

...
THERESA PAOLO
Our bodies knock

and we pretend like we can't hear

They knock to tell us to ...
MALEBO SEPHODI
Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.
'Mum! I can't give ...
J.K. ROWLING
In case you ever foolishly forget:
I am never not thinking of you.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up

I sta...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom
we know nothing. Romances...
ALAIN DE BOTTON
We are broken. Our ways are apart.
Still we laugh together and taunt.
We fight and get hur...
IRFA ADAM
Walk and love
We're walking in love
For the walk of love
CRISS JAMI
Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forg...
DR. SEUSS
Forgive the beggar
attention is all that’s seeked
and in return I never give
this ...
ISABEL AANYA LEIGH
Horses At Midnight Without A Moon"

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods.
Our dre...
JACK GILBERT
The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the ...
RYōKAN
If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--'
'I hate that.'...
RICK RIORDAN
I KNEW IT WAS OVER

when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring
when you use...
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Walk beside...
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing

Rest...
SUSAN HOWE
In the small circle of pain within the skull
You still shall tramp and tread one endless round TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Just past hell lies paradise.
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that.

Serina ...
SERINA HARTWELL
I worked so hard for that first kiss
And a heart don’t forget something like that

Like...
TIM MCGRAW

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