“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.”
“He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.”
“We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”
“I would forget it fain,But oh, it presses to my memory,Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.”
“I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.”
“I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.”