Thanatopsis Summary Quotes & Sayings

The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but what fruit have they to show for this such as has the cross of Christ? Their wise thoughts were persuasive enough until they died; — Athanasius Of Alexandria

The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the salt of her tears. — George R R Martin

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm. — Richard M. Weaver

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is. — Lisa Randall

I missed my mother's father. Is that even possible? Maybe I had fallen asleep for a while. Maybe I was like her, just waking up and looking for him to be there. I wondered how it would have changed things for all of us if he had stayed home the day he was supposed to die in his car. How his decision to go out for something small, something like coffee or orange juice which everyone could have done without, had changed things for all of us. — Ann Patchett

When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost. — Stephen King

Even at the End of Days, there will be lap dancing. — Chris Rose

I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone else in the room, 'Dave Eggers.' — James Bernard Frost

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life. — Ethan Hawke

I waited for her to nod before pacing while I bit my lip. That hurt, so I switched to biting my finger nail. — K.F. Breene

I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent. — Jeb Bush

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it. — Paul Levy

I was scared. I was scared because I didn't realize how much I loved him until that moment. How much I couldn't live without him now. He was... my whole world now. I'd go anywhere. I'd do anything for him. — J.J. McAvoy

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist. — Bob Dylan

When you struggle, you're going to be a little discouraged. But I never felt like I was overmatched. — Buster Posey