Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Peter Ackroyd

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Stanislav Grof

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

Tom Shadyac

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

Wole Soyinka

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Arna Bontemps

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

Brian Jacques

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Christopher Nolan

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Eric Hoffer

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

Glen Duncan

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Isabel Allende

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

J. G. Ballard

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Julio Cortazar

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.

Junot Diaz

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Leonard Cohen

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Maya Angelou