Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes

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

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• Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • Socialism
  • Overcome

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• 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

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• 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

• All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Dark

• If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• 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

• I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Doubt

• It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Career

• When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace.

  

  Jason Kilar
  • World
  • Attention
  • Disney

• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Body
  • Human
  • Human Body

• Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Man

• Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Fame
  • Very
  • Shoulders

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

  

  Catullus
  • Death
  • Dark
  • Return