And so, by night, while we were all at rest,
I think the coming sped the parting guest.
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The Parting and the Coming Guest (1873).Henry van Dyke
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Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.William Butler Yeats
People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it's never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. Perhaps they, whoever they were, thought of a falling sun. That might be it, except that that ought to give us dayfall. Day fell on Rupert the Bear. And we know, if we've ever read a book, that day doesn't fall or rise. It breaks. In books, day breaks, and night falls.
In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.Hugh Laurie
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest
You too have neither home nor rest.Bertolt Brecht
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.
Ivo Andric
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