Afterlife Quote by Anne Sexton Download Open image “Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses” — Anne Sexton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afterlife Grass Heaven May Men
“And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves." "So grass is death too-it grows out of our buried bodies. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God, and for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. — William Browne Copy Share Image
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of words away… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...? — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough? — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception… — Armond White Copy Share Image
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.” — H. L. Balcomb Copy Share Image
It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels. — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
