Vigil Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often… — Marc Chagall
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's… — Michel Foucault
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to… — H.G. Wells
There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have… — Richard L. Evans
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just… — Judas Iscariot
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if… — Howard Zinn
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human. — Henri Nouwen
Dont bring a candlelight vigil to a gunfight — David Burge
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration;… — William McFee
I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known… — Frank James
To look back is to relax one's vigil. — Bette Davis
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil,… — Lord Byron
If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with… — Rabindranath Tagore
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom. — Jacques Derrida
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taughtâ€¦ — Thomas Aquinas
Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she… — Jennifer Donnelly
Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same. Death on her left. Devil on her right. — Karen Marie Moning
It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. — Frank James

Who Wrote These Vigil Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Vigil Quotes as follows: