Buried Quotes - Page 18

• I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

  Euripides

  Luxury, Differences, Littles

  "Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion".

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• Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Heart

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Dark, Past, History

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• You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.

  Simon T. Bailey

  Passion, Enthusiasm For Life, Needs

  Simon T. Bailey (2009). “Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for
  that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  Samuel Beckett

  One Day, Watches, Goes On

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

  John Lennon

  Long, Pieces, One Piece

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.333, Omnibus Press

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• In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Spring, Struggle, Winter

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Child of God”, p.138, Vintage

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• There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that I was to live and die in Africa, had pointed out to Denys as my future burial-place. In the evening, while we sat and looked at the hills from my house, he remarked that then he would like to be buried there himself as well. Since then, sometimes when we drove out in the hills, Denys had said: "Let us drive as far as our graves.

  Isak Dinesen

  Games, House, Firsts

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Ocean, Winter

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.98, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ‘ I said, ‘your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.’ She shook her head but she did not move or touch me.

  Jean Rhys

  Flower, Moving, Sunset

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• On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved as surely as mine shall be. And if you are lost trusting in Christ, I will be lost with you and will go to hell with you. I must do so, for I have nothing else to rely upon but the fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived, died, was buried, rose again, went to heaven, and still lives and pleads for sinners at the right hand of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Son, Hands

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• A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

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• Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.

  Luce Irigaray

  Ocean, Men, Land

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• To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfish, Real, Struggle

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• I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

  Mort Sahl

  Chicago, Want, Executors

  "Political comedy pioneer Mort Sahl coming to Marin" by Stan Sinberg, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2004.

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• The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.

  John Carlos

  Home, Justice, Feelings

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Crush, Prayer, Fall

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• Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Justice, Dies

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cosmos, Might, Energy

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• Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Dies

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• But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Unique, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die.

  Joyce Meyer

  Alive, Emotion, Dies

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• You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, World, Flesh

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.

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• A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?

  Caesarius of Arles

  Fire, Long, World

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• Did you see all that? Did you see that little baby girl? I carried her body and buried it as best I could but I had no time. It really gets to me to see children being killed like this, but we had no choice.

  Matt Martin

  Girl, Baby, Children

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