Travail Quotes

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...”

“In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: For like as a woman that travails make haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.”

“How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and clearness is there, maybe the result of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.”

“If you let your man-made actions to be more frequent than your man-said words you will travail with praise in man-win visions. Do more, say less, win big.”

“There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.”

“You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary”

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”

“Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.”

“It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.”