Buried Quotes - Page 34

• Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Karma, Men, Race

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

  John Wesley

  Character, Loss, Causes

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• I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

  Daniel Webster

  Propose

  "Palin’s “Role of the Vice President” Gaffe: An Historical Perspective" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Body, Instinct

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion of technical issues. The jury may be lost already.

  David Berg

  Lying, Issues, Worry

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• It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

  Robert Townsend

  Ideas, Poor, Sponsors

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Tombstone, Should, Died

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• The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Cutting, Bipolar, Trying

  Emil Kraepelin (2002). “Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia”, Thoemmes Pr

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• The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

  Hiroko Sakai

  Struggle, Artist, Privilege

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• If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.

  Edmund Waller

  Good Night, Lying, Light

  1645 'To One Married to an Old Man'.

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• One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Stars, Ocean, Heart

  "Scary, no scary". Book by Zachary Schomburg, www.believermag.com. 2009.

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• There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, May, Matter

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.129, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Darkness, World, Planets

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• The man who invented Doritos has passed away at the age of 97. He asked to be buried with the creator of Fritos and Cheetos in a variety pack.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Age, Doritos

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• Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.

  Sara Genn

  Inspire, Habit, Ability

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• The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

  Edith Sitwell

  Brother, Dust, World

  "The Poet's Vision". 1959.

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• Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peace, War, Clubs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chase Salmon Osborn, Stellanova Osborn (1944). “"Hiawatha".: with its original Indian legends, compiled, with essays on its authentic background of lake Superior country and Chippewa Indians”

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• There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Men, House

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1960). “And Even Now: And, A Christmas Garland”

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• I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

  I. F. Stone

  Reality, Political, Facts

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.4, PublicAffairs

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• Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is crumbling when it is, as everyone can see, there as usual. If all A that does not fit B is ipso facto disqualified, we have to tailor A to shape and size to avoid serious trouble, and not all are equally gifted in this art.

  R. D. Laing

  Art, People, Usual

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• All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

  Ernst Mach

  Essence, Students, Consideration

  Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Tombstone, Heart, Joy

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• Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

  Victor Hugo

  Yesterday, Forever, May

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• To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Learning, Merit

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