Elizabeth Keckley Quotes

We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.

Elizabeth Keckley

• Death
• Travel
• Darkness
• Grave
• Brightness

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• I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Death
  • Desire
  • Write

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• Travel teaches as much as books.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Travel
  • Books
  • Teaches

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Country
  • You
  • Travel

• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Her

• Thunder-spasms the waking be Into Life from Apathy: Life, not Death, is in the gale, - Let the coming Doom prevail!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Death

• He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Death
  • Die

• My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.

  

  Jack London
  • Death
  • Attention

• 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

• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• 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

• The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Life
  • Death
  • Acceptance

• Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Up
  • Travel

• Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Death

• I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Receive
  • Industries
  • Sustenance

• Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Art

• We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death.

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • Death
  • Travel
  • Darkness