Absalom Absalom Quotes

#1. She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.

Theodore Dreiser

#2. I have never seen the Lord God. But I have seen Absalom alive in the tree.

William H Gass

#3. You say you're sure? Sure that you're in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

William Faulkner

#5. O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man's mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

Orson Scott Card

#6. I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

Kristen Stewart

#7. I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.

Jenny Lewis

#8. I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

Paul Reubens

#9. It's weird to be called a celebrity or talk about it. I don't talk about being a celebrity in my business meetings. I don't talk about it with my friends. It's not a part of my life. It's a media perception of who I am.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#10. The NEXT time my heart gets broken, will be the LAST time my heart gets broken!

Comicality

#11. Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Andrew Jackson

#12. When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

Jesmyn Ward

#13. I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.

Peter Jacobson

#14. VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII.

Charles Dickens

#15. My senses down, when the true

Dante Alighieri

#16. was just dying to speak with him.

Absalom Milton

#17. I'm a survivor, and I can handle anything. I'm very confident about that.

Aaliyah