Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.

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• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Dark

• When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • Time
  • Soul

• My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• 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

• I think Prince was heads, hands and feet about all the rest of them, I thought he left (Michael) Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you … but that's what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Prince

• There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dream

• L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Life
  • Today
  • Death

• An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

  

  James A. Michener
  • People
  • Age
  • Light

• The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • 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

• We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

  

  Aleksander Kwasniewski
  • Done
  • Bad
  • History

• I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
  • Book
  • Death

• People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Death
  • Cancer

• Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

  

  Arvo Part
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

  

  Charles de Gaulle

• When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Nature
  • Blind
  • Buddha

• Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Help

• The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Single
  • Positive
  • Military

• Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.

  

  Catullus
  • Death
  • Dark
  • Return