Requiem Mass Quotes

#1. Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. But what finally ended this cycle was Verdi's Requiem Mass, which he had never heard performed on Earth. The "Dies Irae," roaring with ominous appropriateness through the empty ship, left him completely shattered;

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

Edward Abbey

#4. with renewing his offer of

Donna Leon

#5. The master dwells in the substantial and not in the superficial. Rests in the fruit and not in the flower.

Lao-Tzu

#6. You've said life is a series of choices, but I think it's also a series of opportunities, a series of lessons, a series of moments all strung together that loops around into a lifetime - it's a lifetime of moments. Every decision, every person that has entered my life, has shaped who I am today.

Sheena Hutchinson

#7. Race and class were a kind of destiny; very little could dent them. Morgan himself had been decanted back into the vessel that had made him.

Damon Galgut

#8. The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.

Wilkie Collins

#9. Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life

Lorin Morgan-Richards