Top 12 Sepulchres Quotes
#2. INTRODUCTION. OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.
Mary Daly
#4. Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.
George Sewell
#6. The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
Victor Hugo
#7. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell
#8. I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!
Derek Jacobi
#9. Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.
John Cheever
#11. An act of revenge is deeply inhumane, and in any case, this action, is driven from a low affect.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#12. This was brought home to me on my transfer from Auschwitz to a camp affliated with Dachau.
Anonymous