Ambrose of Optina Quotes

“You must not be greatly troubled about many things, but you should care for the main thing — preparing yourself for death.”

Ambrose of Optina

• Death
• Preparing
• Troubled

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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Death
  • Success
  • Man

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Death

• When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Death
  • Nothing
  • More

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Death
  • Blame

• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • American
  • Death
  • Success

• The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Business

• Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • War
  • Death

• Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Business
  • House
  • Death

• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Death
  • Need
  • Deepest

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Death
  • Red

• I have always - at least, ever since I can remember - had a kind of longing for death.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Remember
  • Death

• Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Death
  • Black
  • Star

• But who is stronger than death?Me, evidently.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Death

• We see time’s furrows on another’s brow,And death intrench’d, preparing his assault;How few themselves in that just mirror see!

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Death
  • Mirror

• The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Death
  • Woman
  • Lover

• I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Ignore

• “You must not be greatly troubled about many things, but you should care for the main thing — preparing yourself for death.”

  

  Ambrose of Optina
  • Death
  • Preparing
  • Troubled