Requiem Quotes

• How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

  Lauren Oliver

  Dust, Feels, Whole

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• I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Get Better, Students, Film

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• At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Cameras, Film, Hunger

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• The past is never dead. It's not even past.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Past, Heredity And Environment

  Requiem for a Nun act 1 (1951)

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• This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

  Lauren Oliver

  Warrior, People, World

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• I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body.

  Liv Tyler

  Movie, Dream, Heart

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• Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Farewell, Bird

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• One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.

  Seamus Heaney

  Easter, Mean, Years

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Choices, Fiction

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• Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

  Ariel Durant

  Writing, Childhood, Quality

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”

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• And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

  Lauren Oliver

  Return

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.214, Hachette UK

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• Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Author Joyce Carol Oates on Widowhood’s ‘World of Absurdity’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 3, 2011.

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• I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Opportunity, Passing

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Apr 13, 2015

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• Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on Colossians”, p.22, Ravenio Books

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• I don’t think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked.

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Children, Home

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• There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Witty, Powerful

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• I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

  Werner Herzog

  Iceland, Choices, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

  Andre Dubus

  Grief, Dark, Thinking

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Ah! the year is slowly dying,
  And the wind in tree-top sighing,
  Chant his requiem.
  Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
  High in air wild birds are calling,
  Nature's solemn hymn.

  Mary Weston Fordham

  Fall, Air, Years

  Mary Weston Fordham, “Passing Of The Old Year”

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• I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

  Liv Tyler

  Thinking, Film, Good Films

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• We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

  Lauren Oliver

  Choices, Steps, Chosen

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• I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Team, Numbers, Together

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Home, Self

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• I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Prayer, Men, Joy

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