Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Death
• Books
• Grace
• Masters
• Gate Of Life
• Soul's Enemy

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• Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Books

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Books

• Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Help
  • Death
  • Leaving

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• I don't read a lot of books.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Books
  • Read
  • Lot

• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • God
  • Real
  • Death

• I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering pouredAvails; no altars hath he, nor is soothedBy hymns of praise. From him alone of allThe powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Heaven

• I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world. I tried to do it with as much care as possible, but it's not easy to ask people to think about death or loss or confusion.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • World
  • Death

• You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Death

• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Children
  • Death

• The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Thinking
  • Death

• There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Country
  • Death
  • Gay

• Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • High
  • Death

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  Patrick Henry
  • Eros

• To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sin
  • Rule
  • Saint

• Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Death
  • Books
  • Grace