Aukahi Quotes & Sayings

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good. — W. H. Auden

I was ill before I fell ill. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I read to see myself in other people's lives. — Stephen Sondheim

Cause I don't wanna be a witness to this life,
I want to be charged and convicted,
ear lifted to her song like a bouquet of yes
because my heart is a parachute that has never opened in time
and I wanna fuck up that pattern,
leave a hole where the cold comes in and fill it every day with her sun,
'cause anyone who has ever sat in lotus for more than a few seconds
knows it takes a hell of a lot more muscle to stay than to go — Andrea Gibson

But that's life. Go first and be sure of a hard time. — Morrissey

So she's like Redbull? She gives you wings?" He lifted a teasing eyebrow.

I shook my head. "More like she's the sun, and she makes every minute better than the last — Penny Reid

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do — Rasheed Ogunlaru

The simplest way to be happy is to do good. — Helen Keller

Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame. — Brandon Mull

Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now! — Ian Callaghan

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. — Lowell Thomas