Beowulf Heaney Quotes & Sayings

And a young prince must be prudent like that,
giving freely while his father lives
so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts
steadfast companions will stand by him
and hold the line. — Seamus Heaney

A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour,
ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince.
They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,
laid out by the mast, amidships,
the great ring-giver. Far fetched treasures
were piled upon him, and precious gear.
I have never heard before of a ship so well furbished
with battle tackle, bladed weapons
and coats of mail. The massed treasure
was loaded on top of him: it would travel far
on out into the ocean's sway.
They decked his body no less bountifully
with offerings than those first ones did
who cast him away when he was a child
and launched him alone over the waves.
And they set a gold standard up
high above his head and let him drift
to wind and tide, bewailing him
and mourning their loss. No man can tell,
no wise man in hall or weathered veteran
knows for certain who salvaged that load. — Seamus Heaney

Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that, quite apart from accidents, even the span of a normal life that passes happily may be totally insufficient for such a ride. — Franz Kafka

She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. — P.G. Wodehouse

She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and no she's gone. — Elan Mastai

The one thing I love in life is to sleep. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf — Christopher Paolini

You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new. — Joyce Meyer

To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there. — Seamus Heaney

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
— Mary Wortley Montagu

I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment. — Felix Baumgartner

Let whoever can win glory before death. — Seamus Heaney

The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill. — Dada Bhagwan

I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don't do that with any other artists. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. — Samuel Johnson

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor. — Linda Gray

I don't follow golf! I don't keep up with golf or know who is coming or going. I am just here to play the game and be done with it. — Boo Weekley

Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them. — Steven Johnson

I see the life with your sight,
O" the love; you're my light. — Debasish Mridha

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. — Seamus Heaney

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed. — Francis Bacon