Dies Quotes - Page 40

• Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Men, People, Good Man

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

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• The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

  Alan Bennett

  Running, School, Class

  1968 Forty Years On (published 1969), act 2. Snobbery With Violence was used as a book title by Colin Wilson (1971).

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• The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.

  Northrop Frye

  Mean, Doubt, Bedrock

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.251, University of Toronto Press

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• Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

  Anthony Trollope

  Towers, Century, Quarters

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.58, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

  Anthony Trollope

  People, Mad, Facts

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.281

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• The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Meaningful, Past, Reality

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• Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

  John Calvin

  Rotten, Misery, Pity

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• India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Conflict, Social

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.24, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Strong, Men

  "Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews". Book by Fabrice Hergott, p. 14, 2006.

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• Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.

  Giordano Bruno

  Substance, Said, Changed

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

  Graham Swift

  People, Curiosity, Revolution

  1983 Waterland, ch.27.

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• When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Men, Keys

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.

  Warren Farrell

  Suicide, Jobs, Loss

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Believe, Heart, Winning

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• I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

  Harold Brodkey

  Two, Space, Young

  1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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• Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

  William Booth

  Fighting, Self, Soldier

  William Booth (1890). “Salvation Soldiery: A Series of Addresses on the Requirements of Jesus Christ's Service”

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• Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hands, Mind, Slavery

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• Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Flower, Pride, Love And Friendship

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• What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!

  Thomas Brooks

  Long, Giving, Honor

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices". Book by Thomas Brooks, 1652.

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• We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Song, Stars, Heart

  'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

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• A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

  Poul Anderson

  Men, Alive, Littles

  Poul Anderson (2015). “Starfarers”, p.488, Open Road Media

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• Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

  Callimachus

  Sleep, Son, Holy

  Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.194, London : H.G. Bohn

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• [I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

  Steven Morrissey

  Firsts, Shots, Exes

  "GQ" Magazine, (p. 278), October 2005.

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• I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.

  Greg Bear

  Stupid, Thinking, Sometimes

  Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.239, Open Road Media

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• Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Animal, Cities, America

  Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.72, Vintage

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