Meeting Quotes

“We met—'twas in a crowd.”

“We shall meet but we shall miss her.”

“The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.”

“In life there are meetings which seem
Like a fate.”

“When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

“meet”

“And soon, too soon, we part with pain,
To sail o'er silent seas again.”

“As two floating planks meet and part on the sea,
O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.”

“And so he'll die; and, rising so again,
When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
I shall not know him.”

“Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet,
Then part forever on their courses fleet.”

“Like driftwood spars which meet and pass
Upon the boundless ocean-plain,
So on the sea of life, alas!
Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.”

“As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadths of the ocean, nay, sometimes even touch in the dark.”

“Some day, some day of days, threading the street
With idle, heedless pace,
Unlooking for such grace,
I shall behold your face!
Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.”

“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet;
One little hour! and then, away they speed
On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,
To meet no more.”

“Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide
When, moment on moment, there rashes between
The one and the other, a sea;—
Ah, never can fall from the days that have been
A gleam on the years that shall be!”

“Like a plank of driftwood
Tossed on the watery main,
Another plank encountered,
Meets, touches, parts again;
So tossed, and drifting ever,
On life's unresting sea,
Men meet, and greet, and sever,
Parting eternally.”

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”

“Talk helps people consider the possibilities open for social change ... Movements begin when people get together to think out loud about the kind of city they might help to create. One person said, "Freedom is an endless meeting."”

“As drifting logs of wood may haply meet
On ocean's waters surging to and fro,
And having met, drift once again apart,
So, fleeting is the intercourse of men.
E'en as a traveler meeting with the shade
Of some o'erhung tree, awhile reposes,
Then leaves its shelter to pursue his ways,
So men meet friends, then part with them for ever.”