Strange & Unusual Sayings

Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet, Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.

Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart.

How I long to lie down in some gully, alone and untrammeled! But I laugh at myself: an old madman growing older, growing madder.

Heaven's ways include the human: among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around, On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

The city has fallen: only the hills and rivers remain. In Spring the streets were green with grass and trees.

The river's blue, the bird a perfect white, The mountain green with flowers about to blaze. I've watched the spring pass away again, When will I be able to return?

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

How strange a thing is the heart of man!

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to thei…

You will not know a detail of the mysteries of existence, as long as you are not disoriented in the circle of existence.

Where those of good repute reign, they do not let us pass. If you don't like it, modify the predestined fate.

Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, Why not find a better job?