Funeral Pyre Quotes

#1. Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

Erasmus Darwin

#2. If the inner [intent] is not spoilt, it means "Our Own Self" did not spoilt. That which has become spoilt on the outside will burn in the funeral pyre; whether it improves or not.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. The empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it, and the whole burnt away in a great funeral pyre - why

Charles Dickens

#4. He whispered as he kissed down her neck. "I would love nothing more than to take you right here on the counter, Fire Angel, but if I'm late to meet with your grandmothers, they might just decide to throw my ass on a funeral pyre and I wouldn't be back for three days.

Brynn Myers

#5. Consider, too, that a man lifting his head from the very funeral pyre must need some novel vocabulary not drawn from ordinary everyday condolence to comfort his own dear ones.

Seneca.

#6. I am too old a soldier to believe that. Hoster will be chiding me about the Redwyne girl even as we light his funeral pyre, damn his bones.

George R R Martin

#7. We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#8. Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. In my dream, I built a funeral pyre.
For myself, you understand.
I thought I had suffered enough. I thought this was the end of my body: fire
seemed the right end for hunger;
they were the same thing.

Louise Gluck

#10. The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

Jim Morrison

#11. He should not be toying with her this way, drawing her into a dance round the funeral pyre, chancing that she would burn. -- Nicolas, le Diable.

Leigh Winterstine

#12. Folk take a battering but, they do; they get born and they get brought up and they get fuckt. That's the story; the cot to the fucking funeral pyre.

James Kelman

#13. I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.

Eloisa James

#14. I didn't care about Suzao - in fact, I was planning to spit on his funeral pyre just to hear it sizzle - but

Veronica Roth

#15. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

Enoch Powell

#16. One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies.

Dada Bhagwan

#17. The place was a funeral pyre for the young
who died before knowing the thirst of man
or woman. Furies with snakes in their hair
wept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped wine
in a dream, as the eyes of a vulture
poised over Tityus' liver.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#18. I pull back and an exhale eases out of my lips. He's the first person I've intentionally touched outside my family for the last six years.

Jessica Sorensen

#19. Plants bloom with flowers, people bloom with smiles

Hank Bruce

#20. Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.

John Congleton

#21. The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

Suzy Bogguss

#22. For a great life it is a necessity to be kind, but for the greatness of life it is essential to be forgiving.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The game lasts twenty seconds, tops. You don't want to come all that way and miss the game.

Karen Russell

#24. People is wise 'cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience - from knowin' each day is a gift and accepting it with gladness. You read a whole lot of books, and readin' sure has made you smart, but ain't no book in the world gonna make you wise.

Beth Hoffman

#25. I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

Thomas Sangster

#26. I want to fuck you in those glasses.

Josh Lanyon

#27. Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing

Munia Khan

#28. I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Leo Buscaglia

#29. Civic life, though, was not optional, and Aristotle tells me the Athenians had a word for those who refused to participate in public affairs: idiotes. It is where we get our word idiot.

Eric Weiner

#30. I think my life would be easier, she said,
if I could just get my selves to agree on something.

Brian Andreas

#31. Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?" "'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,'" I said, quoting AIA.

John Green

#32. And so I recognized that my sojourn into open-heart territory was ultimately an open heart journey in another sense, a spiritual journey of awakening - to the reality that I am here in this life with a purpose, and have been from the day I was born.

Maggie Lichtenberg