"Some people simply bury their heads in the……" — Karen Armstrong
"Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating."
—
Karen Armstrong
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong has 105 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
-
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
-
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
-
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
-
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
-
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
-
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
-
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
-
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
-
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
-
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
-
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
See all 105 quotes by Karen Armstrong »
More Bury Quotes
This quote is filed under Bury Quotes,
one of 439 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,…
— Emilie Autumn
-
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet…
— Pope Benedict XVI
-
A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.
— Brooke Burke
-
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with…
— Thomas Carlyle
-
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic…
— John Henrik Clarke
-
Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let…
— Tupac Shakur
-
When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.
— LL Cool J
-
They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions…
— Tupac Shakur
-
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
— Stephen Covey
-
We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to…
— Sid Vicious
-
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my…
— William Blake
See all 439 Bury Quotes »