"It is death that goes down to the……" — Harold Brodkey
"It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do"
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35 Quotes by Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey has 35 quotes on this site.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see…
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I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of…
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word,…
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I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is…
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My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.
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The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but…
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are…
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More Burial Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
— Seneca the Younger
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them…
— Roderick Murchison
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
— Seneca the Younger
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist…
— Barack Obama
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Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use…
— John Graunt
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue…
— Albert Einstein
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Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion…
— William Shakespeare
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As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is…
— Ann Coulter
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext…
— Jean Anouilh
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when…
— Edward Abbey
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"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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