Memoriam Quotes

#1. I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.
[Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 24, 2013]

Nora Ephron

#2. It [In Memoriam] expressed exactly the nature of her own shock and sorrow, the very structure and slow process of pain, and the transformations and transmutations of grief, like rot in the earth-mould, like roots and other blind things moving in the grave.

A.S. Byatt

#3. Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd, Let darkness keep her raven gloss: Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, To dance with death, to beat the ground. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.

Cassandra Clare

#4. In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.

Neal Stephenson

#5. Paul looks like he'd rather just go home and make out in the kitchen; I would agree, except that I know my Dad is likely to be in there with his laptop, listening to the Beatles music as he catches up on all the Facebook "in memoriam" posts in his honor. Total mood-killer.

Claudia Gray

#6. The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love." from "Memoriam

Anne Michaels

#7. 'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

A. N. Wilson

#8. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends

Emma Bunton

#9. There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#10. I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

N. Scott Momaday

#11. A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Alfred Tennyson

#12. Never let a man stay the night," she told me. "Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

Janet Fitch

#13. You have to be ready for luck.

Neil Leifer

#14. None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Matthew Henry

#15. We are both from the same kind of towns. We both know the sound of swivel-head spray at midnight on a summer lawn. We both know the weak secrets of us.

Sam Lipsyte

#16. You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.

Anthony Goldbloom

#17. We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

Louise Jameson

#18. Your cat ate my unicorn's breakfast.

Jen Calonita

#19. The impatient man of courage is like a premature ejaculation.

Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

#20. With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

Deepak Chopra