Beth Revis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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
-
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph G. Neas
-
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
Lady Gregory
-
Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
Harmon Killebrew
-
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
-
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet
-
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
Gary Krist
-
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Ovid
-
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike
-
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
Captain Beefheart
-
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
-
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
-
Death does not exist.
Edith Piaf
-
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
-
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
Samuel Foote
-
Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.
Nadine Gordimer
-
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Edgar Allan Poe
-
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
-
The trouble with dead people often begins with something called the Death Master File, which is kept by the Social Security Administration. Every day, new reports are added, provided by relatives, funeral homes, and the state agencies that issue official death certificates. The list contains 90 million reports.
David Fahrenthold
-
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.
John Sherman Cooper
-
Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.
Haruki Murakami
-
As a longtime follower of our state university system, we're always behind the curve. We always react to problems. We don't look to solve those problems before they occur.
Charles Edwards
-
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
John Gregory Dunne
-
I think death is easier than guilt sometimes.
Beth Revis