"Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

Adam Clarke

#Death Quotes #Father Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because she has almost a total skeleton. The more sophisticated we get with instruments, the more we can find out. Through CT scans of her skeleton, they now think she died falling out of a tree because of the way her bones are broken. If nineteenth and twentieth century technologies can retroactively transform our bodiment, what then do the technologies we now use do?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Everyone is ambition. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or to do.”
“Donald Trump refuses to give details about his policy plans. Trump apologized by saying, 'When I announced I was running for president, I had no idea people would take me seriously.'”
“Black love is black wealth”
“Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.”
“To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.”
“I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.”

Source : Quoted by William Jones in The Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee, Soldier and Man p. 443
“There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the truth is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.”

Source : Victoria Forester (2008). “The Girl Who Could Fly”, p.275, Macmillan

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