Buried Quotes - Page 27

• This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

  Franz Kafka

  Tears, Novelists, Pieces

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• Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury you. I already buried everyone else." "How can I die," Alexander said, his voice breaking, "when you have poured your immortal blood into me?

  Paullina Simons

  Thinking, Blood, Voice

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• On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved as surely as mine shall be. And if you are lost trusting in Christ, I will be lost with you and will go to hell with you. I must do so, for I have nothing else to rely upon but the fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lived, died, was buried, rose again, went to heaven, and still lives and pleads for sinners at the right hand of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Son, Hands

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• A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Pain, Heart

  1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

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• Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Reality, America

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.

  Tony Robbins

  Mother, Father, Doctors

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Stuff your feelings because feelings buried alive don't die. And that fear or that upset or that anger or that whatever it is, it'll turn into something inside of you. So you want to get it out.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Upset, Feelings, Alive

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

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• When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

  Anchee Min

  Struggle, Chinese, Together

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• In order to help usher in the golden age we must see the good in people. We must know it is there, no matter how deeply it may be buried. Yes, apathy is there and selfishness is there - but good is there also. It is not through judgment that the good can be reached, but through love and faith.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Order, People, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.87, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• one day anyone died i guess
  (and noone stooped to kiss his face)
  busy folk buried them side by side
  little by little and was by was

  e. e. cummings

  Death, Kissing, One Day

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.73, Grove Press

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• All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

  Mark Nepo

  Dark, Cracks, Surrender

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.113, Conari Press

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• The real treasure, that which we all seek, is never very far; there is no real need to seek it in a distant place, for it lies buried within our own hearts. And yet, there is this strange and persistent fact that it is only after a journey in a distant region, in a new land, that the way to that treasure becomes clear.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Real, Lying, Heart

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• I've spent the majority of my life estranged from either one or both of my parents, and I've really had a lot of time to break down all the reasons why. There was something buried inside of me that said, I've got to kind of unravel the reasons why I don't talk to them; why not just one, but both of my parents and I have these really messed up relationships. And why I've been so fractured all these years. I got to the point where I thought, I was not the best kid. I openly admit that. But then I realized it doesn't matter. I was a kid!

  Jason Diamond

  Kids, Years, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

  Lorrie Moore

  Surprise, Release, Tension

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• Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
  And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

  Etheridge Knight

  Death, Dust, Feet

  Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.55, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Oak... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures... when exposed to moisture... it cannot take in liquid on account of its compactness, but, withdrawing from the moisture, it resists it and warps, thus making cracks.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Lasts, Liquid, Cracks

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 8), circa 15 BC.

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• Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

  Gina Barreca

  Needs, Nuclear, Way

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• Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Islands, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

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• The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Truth Is, Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Thinking, Compassion, Worry

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• 'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

  Tobin Bell

  Scary, Alive, Littles

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• When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?

  Joanna Russ

  Memories, Believe, Thinking

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• Struck in the wet mire
  Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
  I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

  Allen Tate

  Cities, League, Four

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.69, Macmillan

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• I had kept opaque
  Down deeper than the canyons undersea
  The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
  Nobody saw; not seen even by me.

  Allen Tate

  Lakes, Saws, Sullen

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.136, Macmillan

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• If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

  Louise Leakey

  Moving, Needs, Earth

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