Obsequy Quotes & Sayings

Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind - what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again. — Virginia Woolf

I can see the future. Oh look! I see us! There we are. We look great. — Kate Scelsa

In later life, he [Einstein] would say that love is the best teacher, meaning that if you love a thing, you will be eager to learn about it, and the work will not seem hard. — Robert Cwiklik

If you are alive, then you have a reason to smile. — Debasish Mridha

I am and always will be a catalyst for change. — Shirley Chisholm

Long Distance II

Though my mother was already two years dead
Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas,
put hot water bottles her side of the bed
and still went to renew her transport pass.

You couldn't just drop in. You had to phone.
He'd put you off an hour to give him time
to clear away her things and look alone
as though his still raw love were such a crime.

He couldn't risk my blight of disbelief
though sure that very soon he'd hear her key
scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief.
He knew she'd just popped out to get the tea.

I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call. — Tony Harrison

Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. — John Hardwick

I've just finished a book called 'The Time Traveler's Wife', which I really enjoyed, but that's quite old, but I have read it. I've read it, and I enjoyed that. — Rupert Evans

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores. — Julianne Hough

Faith is an act whereby they learn their God. — Geoffrey Wood

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little. What matters is the live catch the fisherman draws up from the depths of the sea, the flashings of silver that we see gleam within the net. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery