Glimmers Death Quotes & Sayings

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. — Margaret Atwood

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed — Bell Hooks

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! — George Sterling

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers, nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,
The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells,
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes,
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall,
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each, slow dusk a drawing down of blinds. — Wilfred Owen

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared. — Robert Benchley

Although Travels with Charley is replete with whimsical vignettes, charming dialogue, and lyrical descriptions of the natural landscape that often rise to the level of poetry, there is beneath its surface a sense of disenchantment that turns, eventually, into barely suppressed anger. Steinbeck seems never quite able to bring himself to say that he was truly and often disgusted by what he saw on his journey, but the reader is left with that impression. One puts down this book aware of how remarkably prophetic it really was, and how America continues to wrestle with the problems raised in its pages. — John Steinbeck

All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight. — Walter Savage Landor

A question asked in earnest deserves an earnest answer. — Christopher Moore

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller

E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared — Albert Einstein

The discovery of the cause is merely intellectual, so obviously it does not free the mind from its dependency. The mere intellectual acceptance of an idea, or the emotional acquiescence in an ideology, cannot free the mind from being dependent on something which will give it stimulation. What frees the mind from dependence is seeing the whole structure and nature of stimulation and dependence and how that dependence makes the mind stupid, dull and inactive. Seeing the totality of it alone frees the mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it. — Peter Senge

Every time a trick hangs up on me, I gain a renewed faith in humanity - someone really cares! — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. — Phillips Brooks

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it. — Ulrike Meinhof