Inscriptions Quotes

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In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through… — Aeschylus
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely… — Benjamin Jowett
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece — Nikos Kazantzakis
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the… — George Bernard Shaw
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars… — Laini Taylor
The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture,… — Elizabeth Grosz
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away… — Anton Chekhov
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! — Charles Spurgeon
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his… — Simone de Beauvoir
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding… — Regis Debray
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… — Marcel Proust
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is… — George Bernard Shaw
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last."… — Billy Graham
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. — Diodorus Siculus
A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in… — Mohammed Dib
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance,… — Ferdinand de Saussure
I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in… — Socrates
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. — Robert Emmet

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