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
  • Understand

• 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 your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• 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

• Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Death
  • Alone
  • Ethics

• 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

• Man makes a death which Nature never made.

  

  Edward Young
  • Nature
  • Death

• What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Death
  • Risk

• 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

• Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

  

  Max Heindel
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Death

• We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • People
  • Fire
  • Pool

• Pour recueillir les biens inestimables qu'assure la liberté de la presse, il faut savoir se soumettre aux maux inévitables qu'elle fait naître.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Knowing
  • Life is

• 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