Ernest Dowson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

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