Quotes About In Memoriam

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

A. N. Wilson

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Neal Stephenson

#6. 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

#7. If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. Wilkie got a bigger popular vote than FDR did, which of course meant nothing but it scared FDR. Hell,

Harry Homewood

#9. I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

Rand Paul

#10. No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

Guy Finley

#11. I know he's crying but I don't know how to comfort him, or why I am not crying myself.

Veronica Roth

#12. I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

Jerry Springer

#13. Here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

Wayne Dyer

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

Alfred Tennyson

#15. The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

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

Anne Michaels