English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death....Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

Marguerite Yourcenar

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Charles Kuralt quote: "We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to..."
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. Charles Kuralt
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. Robert Collier
Shane: Aren't you going to ask me where I've been, who I've been with? Rebecca: Are you trying to hurt me? Shane: Maybe I am. Maybe I'm trying to see if I can. Rebecca: You can. Nora Roberts
Edward Albee quote: "First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't..."
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him. Edward Albee
Lance Loud quote: "Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced..."
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. Lance Loud
Sophocles quote: "The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength"
The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength Sophocles
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof? Carl Sagan
Ross Perot quote: "A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak..."
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation. Ross Perot
Bobby Heenan quote: "North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate?..."
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? Bobby Heenan
We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical. Greg Ginn
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach..."
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them. F. Scott Fitzgerald
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. James L. Buckley
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading. Ernest Hemingway
Who will marry me? No one wants a girl who is not a virgin."I will. I'll marry you."Ma non posso sposarti." "And why can't you marry me?"Perche sei pazzo!"And why am I crazy?"Perche vuoi sposarmi."Because I want to marry you. Carina, ti amo," he explained, and he drew her gently back down to the pillow. "Te amo molto."Tu sei pazzo," she murmured in reply, flattered. "Perche?"Because you say you love me. How can you love a girl who is not a virgin?"Because I can't marry you."She bolted right... Joseph Heller
No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back." Sophia Loren