"Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient……" — Bruce Chatwin
"Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one."
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28 Quotes by Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin has 28 quotes on this site.
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The song and the land are one.
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A journey is a fragment of Hell.
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I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the…
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If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the…
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Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk…
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I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
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Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
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When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
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Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our…
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a…
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the…
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I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in…
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More Afterlife Quotes
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem…
— John Boehner
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
— George Carlin
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
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I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.
— Jarvis Cocker
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
— Paulo Coelho
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that…
— William Ames
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven…
— Isaac Asimov
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The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.
— Woody Allen
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I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.
— Woody Allen
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