They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for awhile, then closes Within a dream.

Ernest Dowson
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:...
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:...
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:...
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:...
About This Quote

The opening line from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” sums up the entire play. As the characters begin their drama, they are living in a dream and not quite aware of it. But as the action unfolds and their lives change, they wake up to find that their reality is much different than what they imagined. The play is about how we make decisions and how we live our lives, and many of those decisions are based on our dreams.

Source: The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson

Some Similar Quotes
  1. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Unknown
  2. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. - Nicholas Sparks
  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk
  4. Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi
  5. It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.... - Henry Rollins
More Quotes By Ernest Dowson
  1. Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our little path of light: For all too soon we twain shall tread The bitter pastures of the dead: Estranged, sad spectres of the...
  2. They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for awhile, then closes Within a dream.
  3. I was not sorrowful, but only tired Of everything that ever I desired.
  4. I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long;...
  5. You ask my love completest, As strong next year as now, The devil take you, sweetest, Ere I make aught such vow. Life is a masque that changes, A fig for constancy! No love at all were better, Than love which is not free.
Related Topics