Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Quotes

#1. It was now the stormy equinoctial weather that sounds the wild dirge of autumn, and marches the winter in. I love, and always did, that grand undefinable music, threatening and bewailing, with its strange soul of liberty and desolation.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#2. Rock-a-bye Baby
In the tree top
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall
And Mama will catch you
Cradle and all!

Kristen McKee

#3. Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#4. I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

John Piper

#5. On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

Edward Gibbon

#6. God, you are within me and with me right now and you give me comfort. You give me peace. You give me strength. You give me all the blessings I need to live an abundant and blessed life.

Paul McManus

#7. Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner being visited by a longed-for loved one.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

John Lurie

#9. He found it difficult to talk to other people.

Paulo Coelho

#10. God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#11. The greatest source of rich knowledge and wisdom is found in the Bible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and thereby constantly creates life.

Boris Pasternak

#13. How did you learn to stop crying? (Leta)
I nailed my heart shut and learned to stop caring about anyone except me. They can't make you cry when you don't give a shit about them or their opinions. You can only be hurt by the ones you love. (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Even so, when the framework of the world is dissolved, and the final hour, closing so many ages, reverts to pristine chaos, then the fiery stars will drop into the sea, and the earth will shake off the ocean...and the whole distracted firmament will overthrow its laws.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#15. I talk a lot. I express a lot of my feelings verbally.

Julie Delpy

#16. And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#17. -tacito mala vota susiro concipimus"
-- Lucan v 94
With silent whisperings we,
For ill things supplicants be.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

#18. He spent all that day roaming

Rudyard Kipling

#19. I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#20. Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

Harley King