Top 25 Departed Quotes of 85 - Page 4

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

Homer

Home, Men, Departed

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

Herman Melville

Gratitude, Departed, Hardship

Herman Melville (1863). “Redburn: His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences O the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.376

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

Haruki Murakami

Departed, Mind, Depth

The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

Elbert Hubbard

Inspiration, Departed, Purpose

Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.

Donna Tartt

Memories, Solitude, Departed

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Departed, Doe, Venture Capitalists

The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!

David Berg

Cities, Departed, Saint

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

D. H. Lawrence

Reality, Creative, Departed

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9091, Delphi Classics

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

Christopher Hitchens

Media, Departed, Kim Il Sung

Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd