Dies Quotes - Page 39

• Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

  John Milton

  Hands, Office, Way

  1665 Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.1001-6.

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• Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.77, Anchor

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• Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

  Amy Lowell

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Amy Lowell (1971). “Poetry and Poets: Essays”, p.3, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Baby, Children, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Montessori's Own Handbook”, p.62, Montessori Helper

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• Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.

  Deepak Chopra

  Lying, Believe, Miracle

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• Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Details, Chance, Stills

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes”, p.27, Random House

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• The Wild Hunt is known in all Celtic countries; it is a huntsman with a pack of hounds who is seen or heard to rush through the country. Those who see him are doomed to die. The writer heard the Wild Hunt quite distinctly one night in Wales several years ago, but has not suffered any ill effects from it as yet.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Night, Years

  "High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories". Book by Robertson Davies, 1982.

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• most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

  Randall Jarrell

  War, Fighting, Years

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Poetry in War and Peace" (p. 129), 1980.

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• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.

  John Cage

  Sound, Needs, Following

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Euthanasia, Seems

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

  Tennessee Williams

  Shadow, Giants, Three

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.17, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Giving, Gardening, Endure

  Jekyll, Gertrude (2016). “Wood and Garden - Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.13, Read Books Ltd

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• Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, America, Politics

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• I will probably die singing.

  Miriam Makeba

  Singing

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• I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

  Georges Bernanos

  Thinking, Lust, Faces

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.124, Da Capo Press

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• Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Home, Fields

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1853). “Memoirs of the Rev. George Whitefield: To which is Appended an Extensive Collection of His Sermons and Other Writings”, p.243

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• If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism.

  Sukarno

  Children, One Day, Principles

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• There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

  Bob Dylan

  War, Wind, People

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

  Andy Grove

  Two, Choices, World

  "High output management". Book by Andrew Grove, p. 229, 1995.

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• Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

  Saul Alinsky

  Democracy, Alive, Dictatorship

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• Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

  Jon Stewart

  Smart, People, Inspire

  "Mr. Obama Goes to Washington" by David Sirota, www.thenation.com. June 08, 2006.

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• Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Life, Wish, Ends

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• One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

  Joseph Addison

  Hope, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.67

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• Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.

  Joseph Addison

  War, Lying, Lost

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Cato. Dialogue on medals. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. Poemata. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond; an opera. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus”, p.57

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• See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

  Woody Allen

  Women, Self, Crash

  "Husbands and Wives". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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